Book Reviews & Worldbuilding
Reviews and deeper discussions of how fictional worlds work, from the first impression to the details that stay with us.
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Book Reviews & Worldbuilding · Spoiler-free review
A Spoiler-Free Review of The Tainted Cup
A murder mystery in an alien world. Unusual methods. Entirely human motives. Robert Poulin on why Robert Jackson Bennett’s novel works so well.
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Robert Jackson Bennett’s strange empire, its biological inventions, and the investigators who make sense of it. Begin with the spoiler-free review of The Tainted Cup.
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