Review: Anti-State, by Allen Stroud

● Genre – sci-fi > space opera
● ISBN hardback – 978-1-80552-029-0
● ISBN ebook – 978-1-80552-030-6
● Pricing [USD] $26.95 (HB) / $4.99 (EB)
● Pricing [GBP] £20 (HB) / £4.95 (EB)
● Releases April 21 2026
● Published by Flame Tree Press
● Distributed by Hachette UK / Simon & Schuster US

SYNOPSIS

A standalone story set in The Fractal universe, which began with the much lauded Fearless.

2121 AD. Three years after the first Mars conflict, the colony is still struggling to recover. Corporations fight to hold on to their investments. Old secrets resurface and new faces appear.

Magnus Sirocco should never have been allowed to come here. He is a vigilante turned revolutionary who has been given a cause. He doesn’t lose. Ever. Peter Iskander leads a new religious mission to deliver the promised land to their people. And after being investigated, exonerated and promoted, Commodore Ellisa Shann returns, but when a ship is stolen, she is drawn into another deadly duel.

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Blog tour review: Daughters of Nicnevin, by Shona Kinsella

Blurb

Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of
the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting,
the villagers face threats from both the Black Watch and raiders, and the
women are confronted with their vulnerability. They enlist the help of
Nicnevin, fae queen of witches, to bring men made of earth to life to help
protect their village. But just who do they need protection from? And what
will happen when the village men return?

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