I thought it might be useful to indicate to Through the Biblioscope subscribers that I publish my book reviews not just here but in a number of other locations online.
Two Chairs Talking Podcast
My co-host Perry Middlemiss and I run a regular podcast which comes out roughly every three weeks. You can find us through your usual podcast client by searching for “Two Chairs Talking”, or by going to our website. The website also features comprehensive indexes of all the books, movies and television shows we’ve discussed.
The Megaloscope Fanzine
I produce a two-monthly amateur magazine or fanzine in PDF form which compiles the reviews of everything I’ve read over the previous months, together with some additional longer pieces such as interviews. If you’d like to be put on the mailing list for this, please let me know (you’ll find my email address in the PDFs).
Here’s an index to the issues published so far:
The Megaloscope #1 (June 2022)
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Reviews of:
All’s Well by Mona Awad
The City & The City by China Miéville
Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski
The Megaloscope #2 (August 2022)
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Reviews of:
Hugo Nominated Short Stories 2022
Hugo Nominated Novelettes 2022
Hugo Nominated Novellas 2022
Hugo Nominated Novels 2022
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley ParkerChan
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Wake by Shelley Burr
Frostquake by Juliet Nicholson
The Girl Savage by Katherine Rundell
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Megaloscope #3 (October 2022)
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Reviews of:
The Island by Adrian McKinty
Daughters of Eve by Nina D. Campbell
The Millennium Job by Rob Gerrand
The Maid by Nita Prose
Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham
Banjawarn by Josh Kemp
Ithaca by Claire North
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
Hugo Time Machine 1969
Past Master by R. A. Laffery
The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
Plus: Interview with Rob Gerrand
The Megaloscope #4 (December 2022)
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Reviews of:
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Psalms for the End of the World by Cole Haddon
Day’s End by Garry Disher
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraikis
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
The Pitmen’s Requiem by Peter Crookson
The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner by Grace Tame
Plus: Interview with Murray MacLachlan.
The Megaloscope #5 (February 2023)
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Reviews of:
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Her by Garry Disher
Joan by Katherine J. Chen
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Plus: article about Ridley Scott’s Alien movies.
The Megaloscope #6 (April 2023)
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Reviews of:
Embassytown by China Miéville
Civilisations by Laurent Binet
Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England’s Arctic Colony by Robert Ruby
Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand
Unforgiven by Sarah Barrie
In Her Blood by Nikki Crutchley
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Plus: discussion about Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.
The Megaloscope #7 (June 2023)
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Anaximander by Carlo Rovelli
Cold Water by Dave Hutchinson
Dead Lions by Mick Herron
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Exiles by Jane Harper
Fire With Fire by Candice Fox
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Plus: discussion about the TV and book versions of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
The Megaloscope #8 (August 2023)
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Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Macroscope by Piers Anthony
Russia House, The by John le Carré
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Spook Street by Mick Herron
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild by Philip Reeve
Plus: discussion about the movie Interstellar.
In future, I’ll include a summary in this newsletter of each Megaloscope as it comes out.