Slyphic rated Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall): 4 stars

Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) by Walter Jon Williams
The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- …
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The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- …

The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive …

Spoonbenders is a fantasy novel by American writer Daryl Gregory, published in 2017 by Knopf. It follows the rise and …

It's 1963 and the Travelling Vampire Show, featuring Valeria, is coming to the rural town of Grandville. It's a one-night-only …

Robert Charles Wilson: Darwinia (1999)
Darwinia is a 1998 science fiction/alternate history novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson. Darwinia was written in segments, in …

"Creepers" are urban explorers who illegally enter sealed buildings.

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
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Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer: The weird (2011, Corvus)
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange …

Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the …


Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist …

Jitterbug Perfume is American writer Tom Robbins' fourth novel and was listed on the New York Times Best Seller list …

Skinny Legs and All, novelist Tom Robbins's fifth book, was published in 1990 by Bantam Books. As with all of …