SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: THE WEIGHT OF BLOOD by Tiffany D. Jackson
Retellings are a tradition in storytelling. Often a retelling can take a beloved, classic, or well-known story and bring into a new time with…
Category: Book Reviews
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: NIGHT OF THE MANNEQUINS by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is a certified superstar of the Horror genre… that kind of happens when one of your books makes it to President…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: GIGERS ALIEN by H R Giger
For those who were not around at the time, it is perhaps difficult for modern film buffs to realise how unappreciated some of the…
SFFWorld Countdown to Halloween 2026: I KNOW A PLACE by Nat Cassidy
In a relatively short time, Nat Cassidy has become a Name in the horror genre. With three novels to his name, he’s become the…
New Malazan Cover Reveal!
You might know that we are huge (HUGE!) fans of Steven Erikson and his Malazan Book of the Fallen series – ten books of…
STILL LOST: Tales from 2080 by Sam A. Miller
From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry…
TALES FROM THE TERRITORY by Travis Baldree
The ginormous success over the last couple of years of the Legends and Lattes series has been a pleasant surprise. For the uninitiated, the…
THE HAMMER STORY – REVISED AND EXPANDED by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes
For many people (including me) in Britain, Hammer Horror movies have been an essential part of our genre lives, something that often began our…
MASSIF by Garth Nix
Though originally best known for Sabriel and his Old Kingdom young fantasy series, recently Garth has expanded his written repertoire. His most recent books…
THE FIFTH ELEMENT – A Visual Retrospective – Edited by PATRICE GIROD and ARNAUD GRUNBERG
In my latest “OMG – how-old-am-I?” revelation, the arrival of this book reminds me that Luc Besson’s film was released 29 years ago, with…
SFFWorld Classic Review : HAWKSBILL STATION by Robert Silverberg
For the record: I quite like Robert Silverberg’s books. Lord Valentine’s Castle is one of my favourite books of all time, for example, and…
SCION by James Islington
SCION: a young member of a rich and famous family. From the publisher: My job, when you think about it, isn’t so different from a lot of people’s. The more old-fashioned…
THE STAR TREK ARCHIVE: 100 OBJECTS AND STORIES FROM THE FINAL FRONTIER by Ben Robinson
So: it has been a bit of a shock (to me, anyway) that Star Trek is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary of the first television…
THE WINTER FOLK by Jen Julian
Appalachia is a region in the United States rife with ghost stories, folk tales, hauntings, and legends. It is here that Jen Julian sets…
UNPREDICTABLE MAGIC by Faith Hunter (Everhart Investigations #1)
Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series is one of the most popular, long running urban fantasies on the shelves. I read the first one, Skinwalker,…
HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS, Volume One by Travis Deverell (Shirtaloon)
From the publisher: It’s not an easy career jump, going from retail assistant manager to interdimensional adventurer. Jason doesn’t have much of a choice,…
A TRADE OF BLOOD by Robert Jackson Bennett (Ana and Din Mysteries #3)
Once again, the Empire of Khanum calls upon Ana and Din to solve a mystery that is much more layered than it initially appears…
FILMING THE ODYSSEY by James Mottram
One of the biggest movies of the year – and most anticipated – has undoubtedly been Christopher Nolan’s version of Homer’s The Odyssey. The…
A DROP of CORRUPTION by Robert Jackson Bennett (Ana and Din Mysteries #2)
A Drop of Corruption is the second novel following investigators Ana and Din as they attempt to solve another crime. While Ana and Din…
THE INFINITE STATE by Richard Swan
In these current times of seemingly endless global turmoil, I have found myself being reminded that science fiction often looks at the events of…
