Michael O’Leary on Turncoat by Tīhema Baker
He Puffs Furiously On His Pipe
Nod Ghosh on A New Eden: Betaverse Trilogy (Book 1) by Menilik Henry Dyer; Taken by Alex Stone
The Palace of Animals
Nicholas Reid on Chevalier & Gawayn: The ballad of the dreamer by Phillip Mann
Plotting Pasifikafuturism
Sally Blundell on Na Viro by Gina Cole
Turning in Time
Rachel O’Connor on Isobar Precinct by Angelique Kasmara; The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist by Trisha Hanifin.
Between the Long and the Short of It
Sally Blundell on Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand ed. Craig Gamble
Dust-Red Wings
Emma Neale on Unsheltered by Clare Moleta
Drink ’til Dead
Janet Newman on The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
The Grief of Ghosts
Shana Chandra on The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade
Climate Fiction for the Sunset Generation
Emma Gattey on Scorchers, eds Paul Mountfort and Rosslyn Prosser
Garden of Unearthly Delights
Tim Jones on Monsters in the Garden, eds Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen
Dystopia in a Time of Dystopia
Gina Cole on Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed Marie Hodgkinson