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Alexandra Pierce Alexandra Pierce i(8318398 works by) (a.k.a. Alex Pierce)
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1 Locus Looks at Books Alexandra Pierce , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , March vol. 92 no. 3 2024; (p. 22)
— Review of The Briar Book of the Dead Angela Slatter , 2024 single work novel
1 Locus Looks at Books : Divers Hands Alexandra Pierce , 2023 single work
— Appears in: Locus , September vol. 91 no. 3 2023; (p. 23-25. 55)
— Review of You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories Octavia Cade , 2023 selected work short story
1 Locus Looks at Books Alexandra Pierce , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , August vol. 91 no. 2 2023; (p. 21, 47)
— Review of After the Forest Kell Woods , 2023 single work novel
1 Locus Looks at Books : Alexandra Pierce Alexandra Pierce , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , March vol. 90 no. 3 2023; (p. 20)
— Review of Scale Greg Egan , 2023 single work novel 'I’m not afraid to admit that I felt trepidation before embarking on this novel. A world where the most significant difference between people isn’t color or creed, but instead their scale – that is, their relative heights – and that comes with a website explaining how the science of that scaling works? The very idea – people on seven different scales, where Scale Seven is 1:64 of Scale One – seemed entirely likely to break my brain. But... it’s a new Greg Egan book, the first since 2021’s The Book of All Skies. I figured that if I managed – indeed, thoroughly enjoyed – his Orthogonal Universe trilogy, complete with vector diagrams as part of the story, then I was prepared to give this new wild, likely-to-be-immaculately- thought-out, proposition a go.' (Introduction)
1 Locus Looks at Books : Alexandra Pierce Alexandra Pierce , 2022 single work column review
— Appears in: Locus , December vol. 89 no. 6 2022; (p. 27, 62)
— Review of Phase Change 2022 anthology short story
1 Locus Looks at Books : Alexandra Pierce Alexandra Pierce , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , September vol. 89 no. 3 2022; (p. 18)
— Review of Enclave Claire G. Coleman , 2022 single work novel 'Claire G. Coleman's third novel Enclave seems, at first, deceptively simple. Coleman is an Indigenous Australian; Enclave follows Terra Nullius (published by Hachette in Australia, and Small Beer in the US) and The Old Lie (also Hachette). In this novel, the language is direct and seems to be telling the perhaps ordinary story of a girl gaming up in a deliberately isolated city. which is keeping itself separate because of disasters happening elsewhere in the world. AU very straight-forward, and a few chapters in, if this were your first Coleman novel, you might wonder if there's a "but" coming; if you've read her others. you'll be on tenterhooks, just waiting. There is a "but," of course; there's sentences like this: "Heat from the roadway blasted up to meet the head raining down from the open sky; these competing heats did not feud, they united. formed a gang, went looking for trouble." Eventually, life for Christine. the protagonist, takes a dramatic twist and exposes everything that she's been taught, and the reader has so far learned, as a lie.' (Introduction) 
 
1 New Books, Old Books, and Musical Cues Alexandra Pierce , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , August 2016;
1 Aurora Australis : A Quiet Spring Alexandra Pierce , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , May 2016;
1 Alphabetical Aurora Australis Alexandra Pierce , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , April 2016;
1 Cleverman, Crowdfunding, and Kudos Alexandra Pierce , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , February 2016;
1 Aurora Australis : There’s More to Life Than Anthologies Alexandra Pierce , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , February 2016;
1 Springing into Aurora Australis Alexandra Pierce , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , October 2016;
1 Once Upon a Time in the South… Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , November 2015;
1 Aurora Australis : The Past, the Now, the Future Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , September 2015;
1 Aurora Australis : Scaring the World, Surviving Apocalypses Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , September 2015;
1 Aurora Australis: Awards, Novels, and Podcasts Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , August 2015;
1 1 y separately published work icon Letters to Tiptree Alisa Krasnostein (editor), Alexandra Pierce (editor), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 8815653 2015 anthology correspondence

'In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago.' (Publication summary)
1 Cool Weather and Fine Writing Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , June 2015;
1 Aurora Australis: Stories, Stories, and More Stories! Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , June 2015;
1 Aurora Australis : Awards! Anthologies! Awesome Things! Alexandra Pierce , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Aurora Australis , April 2015;
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