EXTINCTION by Douglas Preston
It’s been 34 years since the novel Jurassic Park was published. Many movies and sequel novels later, Douglas Preston writes a great blockbuster summer-beach-kind-of…
Year: 2024
SPARKS OF BRIGHT MATTER by Leeanne O’Donnell
Sparks of Bright Matter is a novel combining descriptions of 18th century London with rural Ireland, the search for a missing object of importance…
THE SLAIN DIVINE by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #3)
The Vagrant has helped to lead a rebellion against the forces who wish to subjugate his home of Thanet. Lucavi, the God-Incarnate is ready…
THE MARS HOUSE by Natasha Pulley
January Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so)…
DRAGON MAGE by M.L. Spencer (Rivenworld #1)
I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord…
NEWS: 2024 Philip K Dick Award winner announced
The winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award, given for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, was…
NEWS: BSFA Award Winners Announced
The 2024 BSFA Award winners (for material published in 2023) have been announced at Eastercon. The awards were voted on by members of BSFA…
SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW by Aurora Ascher
I’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many…
NEWS: 2024 Hugo Award Nominees announced
From the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon team: The 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award nominees have been announced. The awards will…
MURDER ROAD by Simone St James
It’s July 1995. April and Eddie Carter are newly-weds on their way to a stay at the Five Pines Resort, a cheap motel on…
THE BUTCHER of the FOREST by Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest is a dark fairy tale that wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. Veris Thorn is…
A FLAME IN THE NORTH by Lilith Saintcrow (Black Land’s Bane #1)
Lilith Saintcrow is one of the more prolific fantasy writers of the early 21st Century, her oeuvre ranges across a wide swath of speculative…
THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD by Gwendolyn Kiste
A small neighborhood mysteriously disappears behind a strange veil, confounding local and national media. Twenty years later, the disappeared town is something of a…
A HAUNTING IN THE ARCTIC by C.J. Cooke
A doomed ship in the waters around Iceland that has experienced tragedy across several crews is at the center A Haunting in the Arctic…
FATHOMFOLK by Eliza Chan
At its simplest, Fathomfolk is a fantasy tale of underwater folk. More than that, though, Fathomfolk is a story about differences – differences between…
60 at 60: Hobbit’s Update
Hello everyone! So, in 2014 I was 50. To celebrate that, of a sort, I made up a list of 50 books/series that were…
THE ART OF IRON MAN 2
Imagine that we’re back to 2010. The huge success of the movie Iron Man in 2008, with over $500 million made means that Marvel…
GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner (Book One of The Fallen Gods Trilogy)
When a novel begins with the death of an entire family at the hands of a god, that sets the tone for a novel.…
AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S T Gibson
From the publisher: “Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid…
THE TAINTED CUP by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, 1)
Robert Jackson Bennett has been blurring the genre lines since his first novels published a little over a decade ago (Mr. Shivers, 2010; The…
