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Bus Stop On A Strange Loop - Shaune Lafferty Webb

Review by Jan Napier

SHAUNE LAFFERTY WEBB: BUS STOP ON A STRANGE LOOP

AUSTRALIA, WINTERBOURNE PUBLISHING, 2011

bus-stop-loop-cov Home grown Winterbourne Publishing is: "a boutique e publisher of speculative fiction." So says their blurb. It will then, come as no surprise to discover that the 'bus' referenced in the title is actually a malfunctioning time machine.

Shaune Lafferty Webb's debut opus is futurist, character driven, and kinetic. Set within a corrupt and dystopian Australia, it chronicles the lives of two brothers, one of whom is gifted with a strange ability. Olivia, the other major protagonist, is an insular and disenchanted schoolteacher with a mysterious past.

The novel possesses all the ingredients necessary to make it a stimulating, even thought provoking experience.

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The Waters Rising

Sheri S. Tepper

The long-awaited sequel to A PLAGUE OF ANGELS!

When Abasio comes across little orphan Xulai from Tingawan, one of the Ten Thousand Islands, far away over the Western Sea, she implores his help carrying out the last request of the Princess Xu-i-lok, who has been dying since the day she married Duke Justinian.