Exhalation by Ted Chiang
In these days of constant media presence and social hype it sometimes can be quite difficult to remember that the main purpose of a…
Year: 2019
WANDERERS by Chuck Wendig
The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic novel…one of the mainstays of Science Fiction for almost as long as the genre has been around and before, with some consideration…
Featured Authors in Our Upcoming Dying Earths Anthology
If you hang out in our Writing forum, you’ve probably read about our short story anthologies. Each year, we try to wrangle novice –…
News: Locus Award Winners 2019
Locus Magazine announced the winners of the 2019 Locus Awards during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, WA, which took place June 28 to…
A VEIL OF SPEARS by Bradley P. Beaulieu (The Song of Shattered Sands #3)
As readers have seen in the previous two books of The Song of the Shattered Sand epic, (Twelve Kings of Sharakai and With Blood…
What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes
What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes is a stand-alone, historical novel set in South America during the eighteen century. This story has ships,…
A Clash of Cymbals by James Blish
And so, I get to the last in the Cities in Flight series, an imaginatively written but so far uneven set of novels created…
VELOCITY WEAPON by Megan E. O’Keefe
Waking up after two centuries of cold sleep on a starship with little memory of your last hours, finding the starship devoid of life,…
Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Some have noticed (about time too!) that Adrian Tchaikovsky, once mostly recognised for his Fantasy novels such as his Shadows of the Apt series,…
Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
One of my favourite old movies is When Worlds Collide (1951), directed by George Pal, a movie about Earth being destroyed by a collision…
TIME’S DEMON by D.B. Jackson (The Islevale Cycle #2)
Time travel, when portrayed effectively, illustrates the drastic consequences of changing a time line or interfering with history. In Time’s Demon, the second installment…
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
As we roll around towards another Summer here at Hobbit Towers, it’s time to pick the now-traditional “Stephen King Summer Read”. I wasn’t exactly…
News: 2018 Nebula Award Winners
The Nebula Awards were announced last night. As shown at the Nebula Award website at https://nebulas.sfwa.org/news/ : Best Novel Winner: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal,…
Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein
In the latest of my Heinlein reviews we look at what is regarded as another addition to Heinlein’s Future History series, but one that…
THE LUMINOUS DEAD by Caitlin Starling
Spelunking in Space! That could be a cheesy tagline for Caitlin Starling’s claustrophobic debut, The Luminous Dead, in which a young cave diver maneuvers…
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
With the nominations for the 2019 Hugo Awards being recently announced, I was also pleased that this year’s Worldcon in Dublin also nominated books…
News: Arthur C Clarke Award Short List
The Arthur C Clarke Awards have announced their short list for this year’s awards. From the Award Director: It’s a record-breaking year for the…
THE EMPIRE OF GRASS by Tad Williams (Last King of Osten Ard #2)
After setting up the new status quo of Osten Ard in The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams metaphorically blows it up from a character perspective,…
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
So, this is one (another one!) that I was inspired to read by Jo Walton. To paraphrase her comments, this is one of her…
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…
