Category: Book Reviews
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…
This very interesting book poses the question: Is the creation of a human-like robot possible with today’s technology? Joe Vadalma asks this question and…
The second volume of ‘The Valerian Chronicles’ begins with the story of Thorngere, a Lord of Valeria and loyal subject of the High King.…
The story of ‘Faleashia’ begins as a lovers’ tale as we follow the mission of two elves whose son has been killed by the…
‘The Ring of Naar’ tells the story of 2 young men sent on a quest to find a prophesised ring which will save their…
I found this book slightly difficult to get into at first as the characters contained in the opening chapter were completely unknown to me…
This book relates very well to the everyday geek and nerd that is currently dealing with bullies and girls, balancing homework and role-play games.…
‘A King’s Quest’ tells the story of one man’s journey as he discovers that he is the rightful heir to the 14 Kingdoms of…
It is safer to live off the grid, unconnected to the vast technology, because unseen people are watching our every move, employing technology…
With Tale of the Thunderbolt, E.E. Knight spins another entertaining story in his Vampire Earth universe, chronicling the life and time of David Valentine. …
I struggled to get into this book initially due to the fragmented writing style and short sentence structure however I am glad that I…
The Silences of Home by Caitlin Sweet is her second book, a prequel to A Telling of Stars published earlier, but Caitlin’s writing is…
The Gastronomicon is somewhat unconventional as anthologies go. Whilst Australia is rapidly becoming famous for the quality of the Speculative Fiction it exports,…