SFFWorld’s Best of 2020 List
And as we get to the end of 2020, it’s that time again for us to select our favourites from a year that has…
Year: 2020
Seasons Greetings!
And as it is Christmas Day, it just leaves me on behalf of the owner to wish all of our readers, writers and…
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
Here’s one I’ve been meaning to read for a while, but only just managed to get around to. It seems to tick a lot…
THE LAST LIES of ARDOR BENN by Tyler Whitesides (Kingdom of Grit #3)
Series finales have a great deal of pressure on their proverbial shoulders…even if the story is just a trilogy (albeit three books well over…
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C Clarke
‘Here on the level sand, between the sea and land, what shall I do or write against the fall of night?’ (A. E. Housman…
THE SHATTERED REALM OF ARDOR BENN by Tyler Whitesides (Kingdom of Grit #2)
Ardor Benn is a ruse artist, but a ruse artist who finds himself entangled in con jobs that are of the world-changing variety. In…
We, Robots: Artificial Intelligence in 100 Stories, Edited by Simon Ings
As the nights here draw closer and darker, it’s become a bit of a tradition to tackle a big anthology at this time of…
The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume 2 by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
Are you a fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld? Or, indeed, are you a fairly new fan of Discworld? Despite the author’s death in 2015,…
THE THOUSAND DEATHS OF ARDOR BENN by Tyler Whitesides
Heist stories are very popular and immensely popular stories in fantasy when the character at the center of the story is of the roguish…
Bone Harvest by James Brogden
As I type this, we’re just a few days before Halloween. Although the book is out in November, and therefore missed 31st October, it…
BLACK SUN by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky #1)
The movement of the sun and moon often hold portentous signs, sometimes in history, and especially in mythology-infused fiction. In Black Sun, the first…
The Wintertime Paradox by Dave Rudden
In my head, there’s something special about Doctor Who and Christmas, but I’m never quite sure what. Is it the fact that it brings…
Review: Dexter and Sinister Detecting Agents By Keith W Dickinson
With an addictive mix of crime and steampunk, Keith W Dickinson’s debut novel gives the tonic needed to offset the plague-anxiety ridden world we’re…
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
It’s a topic that Kim has addressed before, but I don’t think that it has ever been more relevant. After showing a world devastated…
THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES by Alix E. Harrow
Sisterhood. Women’s rights. Personhood. Witches. Alix Harrow’s second novel, The Once and Future Witches, is a lyrical fantasy novel that shines the lens on…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2020 – Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
For my final review of Hallowe’en 2020 I’m going to review a book not due out for a couple of weeks yet. However, I…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2020 – The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en review from Randy is a short yet effective novella from another author better known for her non-genre fiction. —————————— Give…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2020 – The Haunted Shore by Neil Spring
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting musician Thomas Dolby, one of my teenage heroes. This was as part of a…
The Saints of Salvation by Peter F Hamilton
I’ve been a fan of Peter F Hamilton’s work since 2004 when I walked into a book shop and saw the hardback of Pandora’s…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2020 – The Last Seance by Agatha Christie
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en review from Randy is a supernatural collection from someone better known around the world for her mystery stories. —————————— Canon…
