Category: Official Reviews
Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, is his version of the generation ship science fiction novel. The book, in some ways, can also be…
Oracle by Susan Boulton Kindle Edition Published March 2015 by Tickety Boo Press Susan Boulton and I are internet, writer-friends. Over the years,…
Many novels have stories surrounding their road to publication and Linda Nagata’s The Red is no different. With the novel about to publish from…
Leviathan is the latest novel by Jack Campbell in his popular Lost Fleet setting, with this one being the fifth novel in the Beyond…
One of the most prevalent genre stories is the Post-Apocalyptic tale; our world transformed irrevocably by disease(s), war, nature, zombies, or threats from beyond…
Dark Run is a book that waves its space-Western credentials proudly from the first page. It’s a fast-moving tale of a maverick captain and…
Slow Bullets is the latest release from the acclaimed sci-fi writer Alastair Reynolds. Released by Tachyon Publications, Slow Bullets falls outside of Reynolds’ usual…
It is not surprising The Girl in the Road, Monica Byrne’s debut near future SF novel, features the snake as a recurring motif. The…
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the…
Nila takes to the air with a pack of wyrms in Lucy D. Ford’s Masters of Air and Fire, a children’s fantasy novel. Masters…
What if the moon blew up and its pieces posed an apocalyptic threat to the Earth? How would the world deal with it and…
“With Earth abandoned, humanity resides on Station, an industrialised asteroid run by the sentient corporations of the Pantheon. Under their leadership a war…
Earthquakes on Mars in the 22nd Century (2132) and 18th Century (1779) British Sailing Vessels traversing space might not be the first two things…
As I type this, Season Five of the Game of Thrones TV series has just started around the world, and there will be…
Agnieszka lives in a small village protected by the wizard known as the Dragon. Every decade or so, the Dragon comes down from his…
Let me start this review of Boundary by Eric Flint and Ryk E Spoor (Boundary #1) by saying that I have absolutely no idea…
It’s a bit difficult to read (or review!) a book when the film version of it is perhaps better known than its original. I’m…
I thought long and hard about whether I should make a comparison between Australian author Rjurik Davidson’s debut novel, Unwrapped Sky, and the Bas-Lag…
Elizabeth Moon has been a published writer for more than 25 years, her first novel which introduced Paksenarrion – Sheepfarmer’s Daughter – published in…
The Word for World Is Forest is an unusual addition to the Gollancz SF Masterworks series, yet a terrific one. Being little more than…