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The Prey of Gods

By Nicky Drayden

3 Oct, 2017

**Miscellaneous Reviews**

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2017’s The Prey of Gods is Nicky Drayden’s debut novel.

Sydney Mazwai may be passing as a simple beautician now, but she has big plans. She appears to be just another human … but she is a being of power, a being who is scheming to unleash a new age of gods on humanity. The chaos will be delightful! And Sydney intends to be the greatest, meanest god of all.

Mr. Tau’s protégée Nomvula could just possibly derail her plans, but Sydney isn’t worried. Nomvula is, after all, only one little girl. How much trouble could one little girl cause? Even if that little girl is a godling herself?

About Strange People in the Strangest Place

A World Out of Time

By Larry Niven

1 Oct, 2017

**Because My Tears Are Delicious To You**

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ISFDB lists 1976’s A World Out of Time as one of Larry Niven’s State novels¹, which it is. I liked to think of it as the last fun Niven novel. Having reread it, I am not so sure that’s right.

Jerome Branch Corbell had himself frozen in 1970 in a desperate bid to escape terminal cancer. In 2190, a man with Corbell’s memories woke up to discover a world unlike any Corbell had expected back in 1970, a world that expected him to expiate a crime he had no memory of committing … with a mission that would consume three centuries.