Category: Book Reviews
Pyr ISBN: 1-59102-339-4 Book 1 of Structure 320 PagesAuthor’s official Web site: http://www.martinsketchley.co.uk/ Four hundred years into the future, one man rules all…
I started to read ‘Book of days’ with mixed feeling. After I have just completed an article about the best fantasy book I…
Warner AspectISBN0-446-61430-0302 PagesAuthor Web page: http://www.robertbuettner.com Jason Wander is stuck on the Jovian moon Ganymede after the events of Orphanage, Robert Buettner’s impressive debut…
I found this book very easy to get into as straight away we are pulled into the innermost thoughts and emotions of the main…
Pyr2005ISBN: 1-59102-336-X 485 Pages Michael Moorcock is truly a living legend in the genre of speculative fiction, having garnered numerous awards throughout his career. Storm…
Thud! Review By Rob Anybody In the 30th official Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett has once again captured the essence of storytelling in a…
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Book One of the Dresden Files) Published September 2005 (UK), by Orbit UK, US 2000. ISBN: 1841493988 341…
Published in the US in September 2005 by BantamSpectraISBN 0-553-38356-6 With the publication of Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer’s phantasmagorical story completes a winding-road of…
This novel is a collection of three science fiction short stories written by Jim Johnson (co-author of ‘Port Nowhere’) which are all very different and…
As a quality writer of heroic fantasy it is fitting if a little strange that David Gemmell’s latest offering is a re-telling of…
Possibly the best story by KG McAbee yet, ‘Escape the Past’ will keep you reading from the very first page; KG McAbee’s talent palpably…
There has been, over recent years, a fair accusation that Raymond E Feist’s constant delving into the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan have become…
Expectations for a writer’s first published novel aren’t normally high. Unless there is strong advanced publicity or recognition of who the individual is within the…
Be thrown into a world of classic fantasy at supreme quality. Swordfights, Kings and Queens, many fantasy fans will be more than happy with…
Pyr ISBN 1-59102-312-7 Gardner Dozois’s latest anthology, Galileo’s Children is subtitled Tales Superstition vs Science, but it could also be argued that these…
With The Sword of Angels, John Marco brings the tale of Lukien, the Bronze Knight, to a close. The flawed, yet noble, knight has…
The prophecies laid out in the first two volumes begin to take shape in The Shards, the third volume of Gary Wassner’s increasingly enjoyable…
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova Published by Little Brown, June 2005 644 pages. ISBN: 0316730319 Bear with me here. What I’m about to…
China Miéville – Looking for Jake and Other Stories (Pan Macmillan, 307 pages. ISBN: 1 4050 4830 1. Published September 2005. The New…
Robin Hobb is a name familiar to many fantasy readers, having penned the Realm of the Elderlings saga, consisting of three trilogies – The…