Book review
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Review: Limelight and Other Stories by Lyndsey Croal
Read the review on Shoreline of Infinity. ●●● Chatbots in the flesh, starlets enslaved by industry, victims of malicious marketing, AI entities entrusted with human lives… Lyndsey Croal’s short story collection Limelight and Other Stories is, unmistakeably, an outgrowth of twenty-first century anxieties and (let’s face it) outright fears. The stories are organised into two subcollections. Those…
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Review: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
My review of The Terraformers was published in Issue 36 (autumn 2023) of Shoreline of Infinity. ●●● […] The vengeful catharsis of this scene portends the same tone for the book, but Newitz takes another path. Rather than revelling in a takedown of corporate evil and the social/environmental toxicity it embodies, the author opts for…
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Review: Birds of Paradise by Oliver Langmead
Read the review on Shoreline of Infinity. ●●● Life, both animal and vegetable, from the Garden of Eden—the literal Garden of Eden—is still around and scattered throughout the modern world. That’s the premise of Birds of Paradise: that the rose of Eden has been forever blooming through the ages, that “Owl” and “Pig” and “Rook” survive…
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Review: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Read the review on Shoreline of Infinity. ●●● What might, in the wrong hands, be elevator-pitched as just another space opera starring a prefabbed complement of misfits (a cyborg, a test-tube baby, a crablike alien, a few wayward humans) is really a triumph of worldbuilding, plot, and tension. Admittedly, I had my doubts: from page…
Jeffrey Palms 