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- Where enemies become lovers in slow-burn adult fantasy romanceAmong recent releases, Amanda Castillo’s A Deal with the Devil offers the best new adult fantasy romance with a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers trope. It joins a…
- How To Curate A Spooky October Reading List Beyond The UsualOctober invites a particular kind of reading: eerie enough to feel seasonal, varied enough to avoid a month of interchangeable haunted houses. A satisfying…
- Beyond Altered Carbon: Science Fiction Reads on Memory and SelfSpeculative fiction has always obsessed over a particular question: what happens when the substance of who we are begins to slide. Memories can be borrowed,…
- Five indie horror novels better than most traditional releasesThere's something quietly thrilling about stumbling on a horror novel that took a non-traditional route into your hands. Maybe a friend at a Sydney book club…
- A guide to the best Asian-inspired high fantasy seriesAsian-inspired high fantasy draws on histories, mythologies and philosophies from Asia to build secondary worlds where magic reflects social power. A Chinese…
- Fantasy Novels That Deliver Game of Thrones-Level Political IntrigueFantasy readers who finished A Song of Ice and Fire often find themselves wandering through countless series searching for that same exquisite tension of vying…
- Cruel worlds, cruel questions: reading The Second ApocalypseR. Scott Bakker's sprawling epic has built a reputation among Australian readers of grimdark fantasy as something the polite genre tends to overlook. The…
- Machines that question: sci-fi novels about AI uprisings with heartThe skeletal metal frame chasing humans through ruined California has shaped three decades of assumptions about machine intelligence. From the original 1984…
- Thrillers That Turn Libraries Into Final BattlegroundsLibraries and archives promise order: labelled shelves, controlled access, climate-stable rooms and records that appear to outlast the people who created them.…
- A respectful Indigenous reading challenge for Australian readersA reading challenge for Indigenous Peoples’ Day can do more than fill a month with worthy titles. It can direct attention towards First Nations authors,…
