Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell
Another oddity from the ‘Can’t Believe it’s True’ Department. This is another recent ‘discovery’ of an earlier version of what is regarded as a…
Month: April 2019
Octavia Butler Rises Again
Octavia Butler passed away in 2006, but her work continues to engage and inspire readers everywhere, so much so that her Parable series (Earthseed)…
News: BSFA 2018 Awards Announced
The BSFA Awards are awarded each year to the Best Novel, Short Fiction, Artwork and Work of Non-Fiction as voted for by the members…
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
If you’ve been following my reviews for a while, you may know that I do like a good techno-thriller. I tend to think that…
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD GNOMES (Tales of Pell #2) by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
Humor and fantasy come together again in No Country for Old Gnomes, the second installment of Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne’s epic Tales…
Earthman Come Home by James Blish
Of the books that make up The Cities in Flight series, this is the longest and perhaps the one most widely recognised today. My…
Survival Game by Gary Gibson
Survival Game is the second novel in Gary Gibson’s Apocalypse trilogy, following on from events in the first book, Extinction Game (review). I really…
SEVEN BLADES IN BLACK by Sam Sykes
Revenge, one of the most powerful driving forces in story. In Seven Blades in Black, the first installment of The Grave of Empires, Sam…
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
“History is just one damned thing after another.” Arnold Toynbee I’ve often said on the SFFWorld Forums that there are two elements that can…
SERAPHINA’S LAMENT by Sarah Chorn
Grimdark is a genre that requires a deft hand, the story has to be suitably dark, but it shouldn’t alienate the reader with the…
News: 2019 Hugo and 1944 Retro-Hugo Nominees
Announced on the Hugo Awards website (http://www.thehugoawards.org/2019/04/2019-hugo-award-1944-retro-hugo-award-finalists/) The finalists for the 2019 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and John W.…
