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SNAPSHOTAgent Miriam Randle works for LifeTime, a private law enforcement agency that undertakes short-term time travel to erase crimes before they occur. Haunted by the memory of her twin brother’s unsolved murder at the age of six, Miriam thinks of herself as Myriad — an incarnation of the many lives Continue Reading

Reading a romantic comedy is an almost sure-fire way to feel better about the world. What felt bleak now has hues of hope and vital possibility and that lingering sense you have that nothing good can come of this messy business of living suddenly feels faintly ridiculous. I mean, look Continue Reading

One of the biggest tricks of any massively overarching space opera premise is finding a way to deliver on it. Sure, the back blurb of the novel can sound like a thousand big and impressive elements, and hopefully some small and intimate (but emotionally powerful) human moments too, coming together Continue Reading

Centering a mystery series around a retired Mumbai policeman of unimpeachable honesty and integrity whose investigative sidekick happens to be a one-year-old elephant named Ganesh gifted to him by a friend by seem like an impossibly twee basis for some crime solving. But in every book of Vaseem Khan’s read Continue Reading

Ordinarily, having the fate of the entire galaxy thrust on your unwilling shoulders and having to stand up and fight rather than flee and hide may not seem like a whole lot of fun. Ask Luke, Han and Leia from Star Wars or any of the gang in Guardians of Continue Reading

When you have something good going on, change can be a very hard thing to deal with. That applies even when the change that comes along is eventually good, the product of life bestowing all kinds of happy eventualities on people who face great adversity and come out the other Continue Reading

There can surely no greater terror for a parent than coming out one day to find that someone has stolen your child right from under your nose in your very own home. This is exactly the kind of diabolically awful scenario which confronts one young parent in Dinuka McKenzie’s gripping Continue Reading

Life may not seem all that magical much of the time, largely because for all the beauty and romance it is capable of, there’s a great deal of pain and loss too. So overwhelming can that grief become that finding something wondrous in its midst can feel like an impossible Continue Reading

In a genre of well-mined tropes and clichés (many of them very well done it should be noted), it can be hard to find a truly original story in science fiction. But Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars, has managed it with impressive original and vivacious imagination, delivering one Continue Reading