Saturday, 26 July 2025

Alrightreads: Small press curios

A. E. van Vogt, Slan

1940 / Audiobook / 124 pages

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Vintage action psi-fi, if you don't get enough xenophobic politics in your 21st-century utopia.


Michael Griffin, Armageddon House

2020 / Audiobook / 124 pages

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Lostlike amnesiac odyssey.


Richard Herring, Emergency Questions

2017 / Ebook / 128 pages

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In case you didn't hear them repeated often enough on his podcast, or mistakenly think half a decade is enough of a gap, why not try this relentless litany of random inquisitiveness and other familiar observations going back to the 1990s.


Berit Ellingsen, Vessel and Solsvart

2013-17 (collected 2017) / Ebook / 104 pages

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Parables of decrepitude and painful living death. Maybe I should read cheerier things?

Faves: 'Among the Living and the Dead,' 'Summer Dusk, Winter Moon'


R. B. Russell, Putting the Pieces in Place

2009 / Ebook / 128 pages

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Trad and subverted ghost stories in the non-atmospheric present.