Cool reviews of Fairest #11, the comic I’ve been writing with art by Inaki Miranda. Bleeding Cool http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/12/review-fairest-11/, Futile Positionhttp://futileposition.com/2013/01/fairest-11-review-the-dark-history-of-rapunzel.html and Major Spoilershttp://majorspoilers.com/2013/01/12/review-fairest-11/(which, warning: does indeed contain major spoilers)
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The last time I got word that Stephen King liked one of my books, I was on tour in Australia. I was jetlagged, exhausted from weeks of touring, alone in a foreign country with all my loved ones in a different timezone and his tweet about The Shining Girls felt surreal. It was so mind-blowing, […]
“A rare creature” in New Scientist
I love this New Scientist review of Afterland by Sally Adee, not least for the amazing opening image. I might have to steal that for a novel: If all the human cells in your body were to suddenly dematerialise, your outline would briefly persist, in all its exquisite detail, in the form of the billions […]
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Another nice review of Afterland, this time in the Boston Globe. It’s behind a paywall, but here’s some good outtakes: If you’re ready for a wild ride across an America forever changed by a devastating pandemic, climb aboard “Afterland” by Lauren Beukes. It’s a summer thriller with a mother and son at the center; they’re […]
Afterland is a “best stay-inside-to-stop-the-spread-of-COVID read”, according to Marie Claire
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Sci-Fi overload with Gizmodo (ft Afterland!)
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