SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2022 (Part 3) – Film and TV
Here’s the third and last part of our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. Part 3: Genre TV…
Year: 2022
The Dragonfly Delivery Company by Keith W. Dickinson
Keith W. Dickinson gleefully returns to Hammersmyth with another adventure for Dexter the mechanical cat, and his unlikely partner, John Sinister. Washerwomen, captains, and…
SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2022 (Part 2)
Here’s our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. Part 2: Science Fiction Books (Part 1 looked at…
THE BLADED FAITH by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #1)
David Dalglish has published over 25 novels since 2010, many of them in the same secondary world of Dezrel (The Half-Orcs, Shadowdance). With The…
SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2022 (part 1)
Here’s our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. To begin with: Part 1: Fantasy & Horror Books (Part…
LUCKY GIRL: or HOW I BECAME A HORROR WRITER: A KRAMPUS STORY by M. Rickert
Randy reviewed this tale for our annual Countdown to Hallowe’en series recently (October 2022), but given the Yuletide nature of the story and how…
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock
Here’s the much-anticipated return of a classic Fantasy character, albeit one that has been here for a while. In 1961 we saw the publication…
THE SPARE MAN by Mary Robinette Kowal
Murder mysteries are very popular stories in movies and books. There’s a nice subgenre that melds murder mysteries and science fiction to give readers…
Dr. Who and the Daleks – The Official Story of the Films by John Walsh
It probably hasn’t passed you by that as I type this we are approaching the end of the year and are entering that time…
THE ART OF PROPHECY by Wesley Chu (The War Arts Saga #1)
Wesley Chu is a writer I’ve had on my “to read” list for a few years now, his Tao books are popular and well-received…
Celestial by M D Lachlan
Ziggy Da Luca is not an astronaut – she’s a Buddhist linguist. And yet she quickly finds herself as an additional extra on board…
The Actuality by Paul Braddon
The Actuality brings the favoured genre explorations of AI into our age. It questions what humanity is, with a frightening dose of climate impact.…
The Book of Mars Edited by Stewart Clark
If you are not a regular reader of reviews here at SFFWorld, you may not have realised that there is sometimes a pattern to…
News: 2022 World Fantasy Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2022 World Fantasy Awards were announced this weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans. Winners below are emboldened…
Doctor Who and the Daleks (Illustrated version) by David Whitaker
As I type this, we’re approaching the 59th anniversary of the first episode being shown on the BBC. The last episode starring the current…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: A DOWRY OF BLOOD by S.T. Gibson
As Dracula is the most famous (or infamous) vampire of all time, there are copious amounts of lore about the undead Count of Transylvania…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES by Marjorie Bowen
The house was built beside a river. In the evening the sun would lie reflected in the dark water, a stain of red in…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: LUCKY GIRL: or HOW I BECAME A HORROR WRITER: A KRAMPUS STORY by M. Rickert
There are all kinds of ghosts. We talk most about the ones that appear in the dark, less about those who never leave at…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: THE BOOK OF THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE by Sara Gran
I reached for him and traced a circle on the back of his neck, where a nice fat drop of sweat dripped, and I…
SFFWorld Countdown to Hallowe’en 2022: THE SUPERNATURAL ENHANCEMENTS by Edgar Cantero
Yes, I blame the believers for my skepticism. Because they’re not up to it; they’re no challenge; they’re so easily proved fools, I hate…
