A Brief Appreciation of THE COLDFIRE TRILOGY by C.S. Friedman
With the pending publication of Nightborn: A Coldfire Rising, I wanted to repost something I wrote almost a decade ago for the great but…
Year: 2023
News: 2023 Hugo Award Nominees announced
The awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society and given each year at Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention,…
MAEVE FLY by C.J. Leede
You’d think people who dress up as cartoon princesses at a World-Famous amusement park would be chipper and upbeat. Especially if that person lives…
THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN by Mark Lawrence (The Library #1)
Mark Lawrence is one of the biggest names to emerge in fantasy over the last decade or so, having helped to push the Grimdark…
THE ENDLESS VESSEL by Charles Soule
Charles Soule is the kind of writer and storyteller where medium is less important than the story. He’s written many, many comic books and…
THE SWORD DEFIANT by Gareth Hanrahan
Many years ago, Sir Aelfric and his nine companions saved the world, seizing the Dark Lord’s cursed weapons, along with his dread city of…
NIGHT’S EDGE by Liz Kerin
Some novels just tear you apart. They get into your veins, into your soul, into your mind and wreck you. Night’s Edge by Liz…
DRAGONFALL by L.R. Lam (The Dragon Scales Trilogy #1)
Dragons – they are fearsome, they are powerful, they are magical. Often, these creatures are shown as man’s enemy, in L.R. Lam’s Dragonfall, they…
News: 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Awards Nominees
The short list of nominees for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Awards has been announced: The Arthur C. Clarke Awards are honoured to reveal…
WITCH KING by Martha Wells
Martha Wells has been one of the more prolific speculative fiction writers of the last couple of decades. Her most popular series has been…
AIRSIDE by Christopher Priest
As I type this, we are on the cusp of the Summer holiday season. It can only be good planning that means that we…
BABEL by R F Kuang
An orphan boy found in a plague-ridden Canton is brought by a mysterious benefactor to London in 1836 and then Oxford. Centre of study…
NEWS: 2023 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Announced
Congratulations to this year’s Mythopoeic Awards Finalists! They are: 2023 Mythopoeic Award Finalists Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were…
THE BLOODY CHORUS by John Marco
John Marco is an author whose work I’ve enjoyed for over twenty years. In fact, the very first “official” book review I posted here…
NEWS: Nebula Award Winners 2022
Last night, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards. You can find the complete…
THE SCOURGE BETWEEN THE STARS by Ness Brown
Space Horror is a mash-up of two popular genres, most famously seen in the classic Alien film franchise. Jess Brown sets her debut novel…
THE FERRYMAN by Justin Cronin
It’s been seven years since the last of Justin’s vampiric Passage Trilogy, The City of Mirrors – was published. This is his first book…
ENGINES OF CHAOS (The Age of Uprising, 2) by R•S• Ford
When I finished R.S. Ford’s Engine of Empire (click link for review) early in 2022, it immediately became a contender for my favorite fantasy…
PERILOUS TIMES by Thomas D Lee
If you have been reading genre fiction for a while, you may notice certain patterns and trends appear and reappear. There was the phase,…
SALTBLOOD by TC Parker
Take a little bit of Philip K. Dick, add a little bit of very dark Scottish myth and folklore and you have T.C. Parker’s…
