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Michael Leon is an explorer, writer and author of the new novel, Chandelier. Professionally trained in international trade, Michael has spent the last decade reading, reviewing and writing SFF novels that explore new and future worlds. His latest work, Chandelier, is a genre-bending tale of time travel, love lost, grand opera houses and the ghosts that inhabit them. Michael has travelled extensively around Europe, walking the paths of his characters, from the famous European opera houses in Phantoms to the mountain tops of Switzerland in Emissary.

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Aiden has always felt like an outsider. After the rebel assassin is captured and imprisoned by the world’s galactic overlords, he awaits execution. Then a mole w for the occupying regime alerts him to a plot that could destroy the entire resistance...

Engineering a daring escape, Aiden’s growing feud with the new rebel leader leaves him out in the cold and smouldering with resentment. Faced wi

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Michael Leon wrote a new blog post Last Star Standing BlurbAiden has always felt like an outsider. After the rebel assassin is captured and imprisoned by the world’s galactic overlords, he awaits executio Read more of this blog post »
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Michael Leon rated a book really liked it Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor is a dystopian thriller with sci-fi elements. Earth's invaded by aliens, the Xirfell, in 2084. Naturally, a rebel alliance formed, and a decade on, one of its rebels, the protagonist Aiden Tenten is a prisoner. T ...more
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On the surface, Consider Phlebas is a story about an inconsequential event that occurred during a period of the Galactic war between two major parties. The Culture, a loose federation of humans and intelligent machines, and the Idirans, a religious p ...more
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Having watched and enjoyed Tarkovsky's film version of Stanislaw Lem's book, Solaris, many times, I finally got around to reading the book. Although I preferred the film, Lem's work didn't disappoint. Solaris, written in the 1960s, has not dated. Mos ...more
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The Ministry for the Future is established in 2025 as a response to an unfolding climate change catastrophe. A heatwave kills 20 million in India heightening the global emergency. Mary Murphy heads the Ministry, its key aim to bring financial, busines ...more
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