Bone Chase by Weston Ochse
I’ve mentioned before, more than once, how I like a story that mixes ancient history and folklore with its fiction. Bone Chase is one…
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WIZARD OF THE PIGEONS by Megan Lindholm
Robin Hobb is one my favorite fantasy writers; I’m talking Mount Rushmore / Elite status. But there is another writer behind that name, Megan…
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Things are changing in sf writing, and (to paraphrase Doctor Who) some would say that it’s about time. Many of you reading this will…
DOORS OF SLEEP by Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt is an extremely talented, imaginative writer whose fiction spans multiple genres – science fiction, space opera, urban fantasy, superheroes, and even the…
Inscape by Louise Carey
“We live in strange times..” – how often have you heard that lately? As I type this, many workers are in lockdown here, with…
Lockdown Tales by Neal Asher
Lockdown Tales is the latest collection from British science fiction author Neal Asher. As you can likely tell from the title, these stories were written…
THE MASK OF MIRRORS by M.A. Carrick (Rook & Rose, Book 1)
Stories with a con artist as the protagonist are appealing and popular, these kinds of characters play many roles within the story and adhere…
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky
And here is my first review of the New Year. For a while now Adrian has been blazing a trail and widening his repertoire…
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
Here’s one I’ve been meaning to read for a while, but only just managed to get around to. It seems to tick a lot…
THE LAST LIES of ARDOR BENN by Tyler Whitesides (Kingdom of Grit #3)
Series finales have a great deal of pressure on their proverbial shoulders…even if the story is just a trilogy (albeit three books well over…
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C Clarke
‘Here on the level sand, between the sea and land, what shall I do or write against the fall of night?’ (A. E. Housman…
THE SHATTERED REALM OF ARDOR BENN by Tyler Whitesides (Kingdom of Grit #2)
Ardor Benn is a ruse artist, but a ruse artist who finds himself entangled in con jobs that are of the world-changing variety. In…
We, Robots: Artificial Intelligence in 100 Stories, Edited by Simon Ings
As the nights here draw closer and darker, it’s become a bit of a tradition to tackle a big anthology at this time of…
The Ankh-Morpork Archives Volume 2 by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
Are you a fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld? Or, indeed, are you a fairly new fan of Discworld? Despite the author’s death in 2015,…
THE THOUSAND DEATHS OF ARDOR BENN by Tyler Whitesides
Heist stories are very popular and immensely popular stories in fantasy when the character at the center of the story is of the roguish…
Bone Harvest by James Brogden
As I type this, we’re just a few days before Halloween. Although the book is out in November, and therefore missed 31st October, it…
BLACK SUN by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky #1)
The movement of the sun and moon often hold portentous signs, sometimes in history, and especially in mythology-infused fiction. In Black Sun, the first…
The Wintertime Paradox by Dave Rudden
In my head, there’s something special about Doctor Who and Christmas, but I’m never quite sure what. Is it the fact that it brings…
Review: Dexter and Sinister Detecting Agents By Keith W Dickinson
With an addictive mix of crime and steampunk, Keith W Dickinson’s debut novel gives the tonic needed to offset the plague-anxiety ridden world we’re…
Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
It’s a topic that Kim has addressed before, but I don’t think that it has ever been more relevant. After showing a world devastated…
