Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Strange Practice is a novel filled with monsters – to quote the book, “in its descriptive, rather than pejorative, sense”. This means that…
Month: July 2017
News: Arthur C Clarke Award 2017 Winner Announced
The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2016 has been announced:
Darien: Empire of Salt by C F Iggulden
You may not (at first) recognise the author’s name: but readers of Historical Fiction may know of Conn Iggulden, author of nearly 20 fiction…
The Delicate Dependancy by Michael Talbot
I read my first vampire novel as a college student for an assignment. Forced to take a liberal arts class, I chose The Formation…
THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by R.S. Belcher
Jumping into a series for the first time at book 3 may not be the wisest reading choice, but that’s exactly what I did…
News: 2017 David Gemmell Awards winners
The 2017 David Gemmell Awards winners have been announced: The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel Warbeast, Gav Thorpe (Black Library) The Morningstar Award…
Interview with Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of the Hell Divers series
We have talked to Nicholas Sansbury Smith as his second book in the Hell Divers series, Ghosts is about to be published. First of…
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
In crime novels one of the most common scenarios of the ‘whodunnit’ is ‘the locked-room mystery’ – that is where a crime (usually…
ALONE by Scott Sigler (Generations Trilogy #3)
In Alone, Scott Sigler brings his powerful and gripping Generations trilogy to a close, a science fiction saga that finds humanity having advanced far…
Guest post: Hiking in Shifting Sands: On loving dunes and Dune by Wendy N Wagner
Frank Herbert’s Dune and I begin in the same place: the central Oregon coast. The sand dunes blanketing the forty-mile stretch between the towns…
Guest post: Manufacturing Myths: How a Crime Writer Used Mythology to Learn How to Write Science-Fiction by Nik Korpon
I never meant to write a science-fiction novel. In the early incarnations of The Rebellion’s Last Traitor—which was called Mount Joy at that point…
THE RELUCTANT QUEEN by Sarah Beth Durst
Spirits are still alive and potentially causing havoc in The Reluctant Queen, the second installment of Sarah Beth Durst’s fantasy saga, The Queens of…
Improbable Botany Kickstarter
A new kickstarter campaign is up and running that readers of this site may find interesting: Improbable Botany, an anthology about alien plant invasions and…
Interview with Snake Eyes author Hillary Monahan
Known for her popular YA horror novels in the Bloody Mary universe, Hillary Monahan is the author of Snake Eyes, the third book in…
