SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: Ghoster by Jason Arnopp
Jason’s last novel, The Last Days of Jack Sparks (reviewed here) was a best-seller here in the UK. I liked it a lot –…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER by Theodora Goss
Randy’s latest this month is a modern take on Gothic classics. A thick layer of ivy grew up the walls to the third floor,…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN by Jennifer Giesbrecht
Part Frankentstein, with a heavy dose of the Jewish Golem myth, with murder and personal identity thrown into the mix of Victorian England, and…
New York Comic Con 2019 Convention Report
Early October in New York means thousands upon thousands of people will descend upon the Jacob K. Javits Center. People decked out as their…
Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
In the beginning, in the future, the discovery of time travel became known to all. As a result, chaos reigned, history was written and…
The Rowankind Series By Jacey Bedford
Rowankind is a three book historical fantasy series published in the US by DAW. The trilogy falls right into my ‘guilty pleasures’ reading. Set…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: AVAILABLE DARK by Elizabeth Hand
Here we begin with Randy’s first review of the month. Outside [the car] stretched an expanse of rock flensed of any vegetation, even moss…
FULL THROTTLE by Joe Hill
Joe Hill has become a trusted, brand name storyteller over the course of the last decade or so. With novels and stories garnering awards…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2019: Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
To begin our traditional SFFWorld rundown to Halloween, we begin with an exclusive – the Prologue to a new book by Stephen Chbosky, the…
Getting to Know Leonard Nimoy from His Poetry – “These Words Are for You”
For decades, whether he was entertaining America on a weekday TV show or up on the silver screen in theatres, Leonard Nimoy made his…
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Even in these hyper-enhanced times, it’s not every day that a book arrives for review with glowing recommendations from a broad range of authors.…
A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS by Shaun Hamill
A troubled family is beset by dark visits, as told by the youngest child from a time before he is born. He recounts his…
Cold Storage by David Koepp
So: what do you expect when a book appears from the scriptwriter of Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and Mission: Impossible? Cold Storage is that kind…
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
Mark Yon reviewed the book here at SFFWorld recently, too: https://www.sffworld.com/2019/09/a-little-hatred-by-joe-abercrombie/ Joe Abercrombie needs little introduction to fantasy readers at this point, the man…
Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
Just over twenty years ago, Stephen published a trilogy of books (The NASA Trilogy) set in an alternate near-future where human space exploration had…
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
It’s a bit of a shock to realise that it’s nearly fifteen years since I first read Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, Book One…
The Grip of it by Jac Jemc
When a book arrives with a blurb recommending it from Jeff Vandermeer, you sort’ve know what to expect – expect weird. This creepy tale…
The Song of the Sycamore by Edward Cox
Ed’s previous trilogy of novels (collectively known as The Guild Trilogy) have built up a reputation for stylistic grimness, a Grimdark sensibility but one…
Edward Cox Blog Post: The Song of 1986
We’re very pleased to welcome Edward Cox to SFFWorld today. Ed has already had three acclaimed novels published to date, known as The Relic…
THE RAGE OF DRAGONS by Evan Winter
A young man fights through the ranks of his military to become the best fighter/swordsman so he can take revenge upon those who wronged…
Awards: Hugo Award Winners 2019
The winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards have been announced. The awards were presented at Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention. Members…
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
It may be an understatement to say that writer Neil Gaiman is ‘hot’ at the moment. With the recent television adaptations of American Gods…
1944 Retro-Hugo Awards announced
From the Hugo Awards: Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the winners of the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Awards…
