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Title: The Legacy of Molly Southbourne | Author: Tade Thompson | Publisher: Tor (2022)

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Book #115 of 2026:

Doctor Who: One Night Only (A Fela Kuti Story) by Tade Thompson (Icons #4)

I had never heard of the Nigerian musician / activist Fela Kuti before, so I’ll give credit to this Doctor Who historical adventure for introducing me to him as a fictionalized character who helps the Fourth Doctor repel an alien invasion. But he doesn’t have a major role to play in these affairs, and his most interesting edge — critiquing UNIT and the British military more broadly — amounts to very little in the end. The Doctor and Sarah Jane dynamic has a bit more bite to it, with her starting out as an amnesiac and him not treating her particularly kindly there, but otherwise, this is a pretty standard plot for the franchise. At least as a novella, it doesn’t overstay its welcome.

★★★☆☆

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Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2025, part 6 — Broken Hands Media

Well, the past couple of weeks have been…a lot. I can’t help but think that it’s probably not healthy to stay plugged into the news all the

In this slate of book reviews:

Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani: a philosophy book that is actually a horror story about the sentience and malevolence of oil as an eldritch entity (the rotting corpse of the black sun.)

Rosewater by Tade Thompson: which takes the paranoid psychic espionage fiction of the 1970s and resets it in a near-future Nigeria.

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin: which synthesizes John Carpenter and Stephen King into the story of a group of young people (think a "Wilderness Therapy Program" or conversion therapy camp.)

Flatline Constructs by Mark Fisher: his doctoral dissertation, mapping out a kind of space between Videodrome and Neuromancer, among other works, exploring humanity as a thing constantly invaded and penetrated by the machinery that we build and set in motion: the human as the fleshy core to a constantly growing inorganic superstructure.

And others!

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Title: The Survival of Molly Southbourne | Author: Tade Thompson | Publisher: Tor (2019)

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2025

Tade Thompson

La Survie de Molly Southbourne

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The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

This was bloody and brilliant! A solid ending to the Molly Southbourne trilogy that I enjoyed just as much as the previous two volumes, The Murders of Molly Southbourne and The Survival of Molly Southbourne. I’ve appreciated the differences between Murders, Survival and Legacy as much as I have the overarching story – from the first book’s blood-bath beginnings, through the second’s meditation on…

The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

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2025

Tade Thompson

Les Meurtres de Molly Southbourne