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		<title>The Cold Commands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Pierce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Morgan Del Ray (2011) ISBN: 9780345493064 Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce I&#8217;d like to say that The Cold Commands is a satisfactory or entertaining sequel to Richard Morgan&#8217;s The Steel Remains, but those who have read the latter would know that I was lying through my teeth; it couldn&#8217;t be either. So I will go with &#8216;appropriate.&#8217; Other adjectives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2064&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anthology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Pierce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alisa Krasnostein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twelfth Planet Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne Twelfth Planet Press (2008) ISBN: 9780980484106 Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce (this review was first published in April 2008) Writing near-future science fiction, especially giving it a particular date, requires a certain amount of bravado, as well as all the necessary imagination and skill of sf writing in general. In giving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2059&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: The Traveling Tide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Short Story Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aqueduct Press]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Polack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosaleen Love Aqueduct press (2005) ISBN: 0-9746559-9-6 Reviewed by Gillian Polack (this review was originally published in September 2006) This book is the fifth volume of a series called “Conversation Pieces” &#8211; Conversation pieces is a perfect description. It is a small paperback, barely a hundred pages. It contains seven short works by Love. Is this slim volume [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2054&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: Black Juice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Short Story Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allen and Unwin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margo Lanagan Allen &#38; Unwin (2006) ISBN: 9781741750911 Reviewed by Kathryn Linge (this review was first published in April 2008 I come to this collection with certain prior knowledge of Margo Lanagan and her successes, but no actual first-hand experience. And the prior knowledge is weighty, including a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and a World Fantasy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2049&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: The Accidental Sorcerer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KE Mills Rogue Agent, book 1 HarperVoyager (2008) ISBN: 9780732286040 Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack (this review was originally published in February 2008) The Accidental Sorcerer turned out to be a delightful surprise. The first twenty pages seemed to be setting up a rather ordinary, derivative novel without much originality. But then the author hit her stride, and the novel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2044&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: The Infernal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Wilkins Arrow (1997) ISBN: 0091834171 Reviewed by Gillian Polack (this review first published August 2007) Kim Wilkins is a reliably entertaining writer. She knows the tropes for horror and her backgrounds feel secure and are detailed to the exact level they need to be. Nothing I’ve read by her is less than good, and at her best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2038&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: White Tiger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dark Heavens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kylie Chan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tansy Rayner Roberts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kylie Chan Dark Heavens, book 1 HarperCollins (2006)  ISBN: 9780732282967 Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts (this review was originally published in October 2006) There have been some really great debuts for Australian fantasy writers in the last twelve months, with Karen Miller’s adventurous Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology, and Grace Dugan’s promising first novel, The Silver Road. Like these two exciting new authors, Kylie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2032&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: the Black Magician trilogy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Magician]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trudi Canavan The Magician&#8217;s Guild, Harper Voyager (2001), ISBN: 9780732270957 The Novice, Harper Voyager (2002), ISBN: 9780732272364 The High Lord, Harper Voyager (2003), ISBN: 9780732272302 Reviewed by Kathryn Linge (this review was originally published in 2009) The Black Magician Trilogy revolves around Sonea, a girl born in the slums of the city of Imardin, who discovers that she has magical abilities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2025&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: Blue Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bantam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorraine Cormack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Marquardt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Marquardt Bantam (2002) ISBN: 186325 251 7 Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack (this review was originally published in 2007) Blue Silence is a confident and assured science fiction novel, which I enjoyed a great deal. The novel focuses on Senator Maya Russini, and is told from her point of view. Maya is a strong character; I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2017&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Review: Dark Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marianne de Pierres]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marianne de Pierres Sentients of Orion, book 1 Orbit (2007) ISBN: 9781841494289  Reviewed by Tehani Wessely (this review was originally published in 2007) Reading a Marianne de Pierres novel is almost like immersing yourself in a brilliantly detailed film – you find yourself engrossed in not only the plot and characterisation, but in the highly visual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aussiespecficinfocus.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12524681&amp;post=2012&amp;subd=aussiespecficinfocus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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