Year: 2018 February 27, 2018
Tor have announced a new Glen Cook Black Company novel in September: https://www.tor.com/2018/02/26/cover-reveals-glen-cook-port-of-shadows-the-black-company/ There’s an extract on the Tor website (it reads great!) and the cover…
February 26, 2018
Gollancz and DAW acquires space opera Seven Devils by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam. Rachel Winterbottom, Commissioning Editor at Gollancz, bought UK and Commonwealth…
February 24, 2018
I guess it is a truism that one of the purposes of a sophomore novel in a series is to build up the…
February 23, 2018
News has reached us here from BBC Books of some new Doctor Who novelisations due in April 2018. BBC Books are excited to announce…
February 22, 2018
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven is a book I came across while browsing for something a little different to read. I don’t read much horror…
February 17, 2018
Note: This is the third book in a series. The first book, Foundation, is reviewed HERE. The second book, Foundation and Empire, is…
February 16, 2018
We already have four novels in Stephen Aryan’s fantasy setting – the complete Age of Darkness trilogy, and the currently in-progress Age of Dread…
February 15, 2018
It takes a great deal of commitment and effort to run a small press. Nick Bailey and Darren Bullock are two intrepid souls hoping to…
February 13, 2018
World War II and magic, two ingredients of speculative fiction that work well separately, but when combined smartly as they are in David Mack’s…
February 10, 2018
You might have noticed that after a pretty quiet time, there’s been a resurgence in the availability of Ursula Krober LeGuin’s writing in the…
February 9, 2018
When I heard an anthology featuring a villain’s perspective was being Kickstarted I had to back it. The contributor list alone is enough to…
February 8, 2018
Terminal Alliance, the first book in Jim C Hines’ new Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse series, can be summed up in one word: fun. It’s…
February 7, 2018
A traffic cop pulls into a backwater town in rural America. By the side of the dusty road a weather beaten sign proclaims Norris,…
February 6, 2018
Dragons flying in the sky, an arranged marriage between two upper class youths, a broken city… one might be forgiven for thinking The Sky…
February 5, 2018
Clockwork ghosts and the patterns of departed souls comprise a techno-synergetic society. A microcosm of human habitation flies across the vast loneliness of space.…
February 3, 2018
This is one that passed me by last year when it was first released. I’m pleased I caught up with it, though. It’s…
February 1, 2018
Invaders From Beyond caught me with its tagline, and I do rather like Attack The Block and The World’s End. What we have here…
January 31, 2018
See Part I and Part II. Introduction James Bradley, author of Clade and The Silent Invasion, is a journalist and critic I admire, for…
January 29, 2018
Just as Star Wars (or Star Trek for some) is widely considered the zenith of the science fiction film genre, many have come to…
January 28, 2018
The Lost Plot is full of life and wit from the start. The reader is thrown into the thick of things with the trials…
