EXODUS: The Archimedes Machine by Peter F. Hamilton
“Listen: I’ve got an appreciation for girth. Giggle if you must, but what I’m referring to are thick, dense novels where I can lose…
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ROAD TO RUIN by Hana Lee (Magebike Courier #1)
Not all post-apocalyptic novels are cut from the same cloth. Sure many have common themes/settings, but not all have magic as an integral part…
DIVE BEYOND ETERNITY by Valeriya Salt
This alternative history science fiction thriller is set on the English east coast blending a lost World War II U-boat with time travel. It…
UFO: SHADOW PLAY by James Swallow
Recently I was pleased to receive for review two novellas based on two Gerry Anderson television series being published by Anderson Entertainment, the company…
SPACE 1999: THE ARMAGEDDON ENGINE by James Swallow
It’s a well-known fact in my household that, like many of my age, the programmes of Gerry Anderson in the 1960s were my first…
SO THIRSTY by Rachel Harrison
Possession…witches…werewolves…Satanic Cults, Rachel Harrison has covered some of the top iconic characters/tropes/creatures of the horror genre. With So Thirsty, she tackles perhaps the most…
BLACKWATER (Part 1): The Flood by Michael McDowell
The story of this book’s publication in the UK is a long and complicated one, but keeping it simple, Blackwater was first published in…
DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1)
LitRPG is one of the biggest subgenres to emerge in the last decade or so. A subset of the fantasy/science fiction genre, the story…
LONG LIVE EVIL by Sarah Rees Brennan (The Time of Iron #1)
Portal Fantasies are one of the most traditional kinds of fantasies, those in which characters from “the real world” find themselves transported to a…
HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING by Django Wexler (Dark Lord Davi #1)
Imagine dying 237 times and waking up in the same place after you are killed. You have memories of what you’ve done in your…
THE DARK WE KNOW by Wen-yi Lee
Getting the gang back together…a common, well-trod theme in fiction is how Wen-yi Lee’s debut novel, The Dark We Know begins. Isadora Chang reluctantly…
DEEP BLACK by Miles Cameron
Deep Black is the much-anticipated sequel to one of my favourite SF books in recent years, Artifact Space (review HERE.) I had high hopes…
THE MERCY OF GODS by James S. A. Corey
I think it is safe to say that The Mercy of Gods is one of the most eagerly anticipated science fiction novels of the…
SWORD CATCHER by Cassandra Clare
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, Kel is an orphan, stolen from his old impoverished life to become Prince Conor Aurelian’s body-double. As his…
THE DISSONANCE by Shaun Hamill
Shaun Hamill burst onto the genre scene with A Cosmology of Monsters in 2019, about which I said, “Hamill impressed the hell out of…
ECHO OF WORLDS by M. R. Carey
The first book of this duology, Infinity Gate, was perhaps my favourite read of 2023, so this second part has a great deal to…
THE DAUGHTER’S WAR by Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue Thief #0)
It has been roughly three years since Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief released to great acclaim (including a very positive review from yours truly). …
ART of MARVEL Studios: THE AVENGERS (ASSEMBLE) by Jason Surrell
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fifth, following Captain America: The…
FOUL DAYS by Genoveva Dimova (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters Volume 1)
Bulgarian/Balkan myth comes alive (or undead) in Foul Days by Genovena Dimova, which is the first part of her Witch’s Compendium of Monsters duology…
THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS by Sarah Brooks
I have always fancied travelling on one of those luxury train journeys. Stepping into the footsteps left by explorer Michael Palin (or perhaps less…
