Too full of its own cleverness.
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I'm the author of the sf thriller Horizon. I'm also publisher at coeur de lion publishing and a past editor of Aurealis - Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine from 2001 to 2004. I hosted 30 episodes of the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction Podcast, and edited and published Dimension6 the free Australian speculative fiction electronic magazine from 2014 to 2020.
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Keith Stevenson rated Doors of Eden: 5 stars
Keith Stevenson rated The dry: 4 stars
The dry by Jane Harper
Als de lijken van een man, zijn vrouw en zijn kind worden gevonden, gaat een vriend van de man helpen …
Keith Stevenson rated Dark Eden: 3 stars
Keith Stevenson rated The City We Became: 4 stars
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.
Every city has a soul. Some are as …
Keith Stevenson rated Interference: 4 stars
Keith Stevenson reviewed Firefall by Peter Watts
Firefall (2014, Head of Zeus)
Review of 'Firefall' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Keith Stevenson reviewed Agency by William Gibson
Review of 'Agency' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I've always loved Gibson's writing. His prose is clean, light and immersive. He makes you smell and taste the future. But Agency, like a lot of his later books lacks 'plot oomph'. The real action happens off-stage in the main or when we do see it - like the AI reveal - it fizzles. I miss the real heavy, exciting plots of Count Zero and Neuromancer. But I still enjoy his stuff.
Review of "The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall)" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Loved the spaceman Hornblower stuff. Felt the flashback story of the female protag lacked originality, was too long and telegraphed it's denouement too far in advance.
Keith Stevenson rated Dogs of War: 3 stars
Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rex is seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics …
Keith Stevenson rated Semiosis: 4 stars
Keith Stevenson reviewed Auberon by James S.A. Corey
Review of 'Auberon' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I love the Expanse books and this novella is a welcome little taster before the final volume drops next year. It plots the expansion of the Duarte regime and is a quiet but well-drawn character study with an ending that elevates the whole piece and reframes what has gone before not just for the people in the novella but more broadly for what is happening to the Laconian Empire.
Keith Stevenson reviewed T2 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Review of 'T2 Trainspotting' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Sick Boy's up tae nae good. Hilarity ensues. Barry.
Keith Stevenson reviewed Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Gary Rendell is the sole survivor of a mission exploring an anomalous artefact discovered in …
Review of 'Walking to Aldebaran' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
An entertaining blend of big SF ideas and human folly.