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Games Review - Interstellar Adventures, a Cooperative Puzzle Adventure

 Games Review - Interstellar Adventures In the depths of space, a cryptic signal reaches The Atlas from a previously unexplored planet. Aboard, Captain Silna and her crew scramble to decipher the call. What follows is an adventure that pushes our crew to confront their limits. Using powers of logic and deduction, the crew set out on a mission to untangle the unknown. Exploring an obscure new world, battling ravenous plants, and narrowly escaping missile attacks, our crew embark on a quest that makes them second guess everything they thought they knew… Interstellar Adventures is a new cooperative puzzle adventure from Minty Noodles. I met the people behind it at the UK Games Expo in Birmingham in May, and was immediately drawn in by the cool art and cute characters. After talking with them for a little, they were happy to send me a preview copy of review purposes. It's a really fun concept, and one I haven't really come across before. The game itself is episodic. My preview copy...
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Review - The Red Gloves by Catherine Fisher

 Review - The Red Gloves and Other Stories by Catherine Fisher

Two step-brothers share one nightmare; red gloves that reach for your throat; a changing room where a stranger asks to swap lives with you; and who is the ghost in the rain? An expert storyteller weaves nine spells. Fear mixed with wit, heart and magic.



I love this new short story collection from Catherine Fisher.

Each of the short stories in this collection sets up something mysterious, creepy and magical. Some are based on her previous writing, some draw on classic fairy stories with a distinctive twist. They're all clever and perfectly sketched in a short space. And then they generally do something that I absolutely adore in short stories, they leave it all deliciously unresolved. 

Magic doesn't have to be explained. We don't need to know how we got onto this path, or even what lies at the end of it, when the journey is so thrilling and exciting. There's something to be preferred about this approach to having everything neatly tied up. It leaves so much to the imagination.

And that's what The Red Gloves and Other Stories does so well, it sets off all of these sparks in the imagination and then leaves them to fizzle and burn. 

A wonderful collection.

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The Red Gloves and Other Stories by Catherine Fisher is out now, published by Firefly Press

I was given a review copy in return for an honest review.

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