The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
What do you do if you’re ‘an outsider’ in life? Science fiction has always had an element of that in its nature. Often SF…
Category: Book Reviews
Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold
Earlier this year I reviewed the promising debut of Luke Arnold, The Last Smile in Sunder City. I liked it a lot – a…
THE CLOUD ROADS (The Books of the Raksura #1) by Martha Wells (Audio Book Review)
Moon is alone, an orphan. He knows very little about his origins with the exception that his mother died as did his siblings when…
The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie
The book begins with an ironic comment about the weight of a crown and a joke about old men’s bladders… and so we can…
Book Review: CAPTAIN MOXLEY and the EMBERS of the EMPIRE by Dan Hanks
Nazis! Ancient civilizations! Secret Governments! Cracking Adventure! These are just a few of the elements of Dan Hanks’s debut novel, Captain Moxley and the…
World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter
Last year I reviewed the first book in this series, World Engines: Destroyer, with mixed results. It was interesting, unmistakably Baxter, but used Reid…
Orfeia by Joanne M. Harris
In the last few years Joanne (author of the best-selling book Chocolat) has quietly been cutting herself a genre niche by writing reimagined traditional…
Book Review: INK & SIGIL by Kevin Hearne (Ink & Sigil #1)
Kevin Hearne has become a force in the genre since he launched his career with The Iron Druid Saga, adding two more series to…
Archive Review: Bradbury Centenary – Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, born August 22nd 1920, would have been 100 years old today. With this in mind, here’s an SFFWorld review from the archives…
THE SHADOW COMMISSION by David Mack (Dark Arts #3)
Fantasy as a setting allows for a great deal of flexibility in storytelling. David Mack follows that ideal with the third installment of his…
The Living Dead by George A Romero and Daniel Kraus
Ah – zombies. They just won’t lie down and die, will they? Since the adaptation of The Walking Dead into a TV series (currently…
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
This is a Space Opera with ambitions – a big sprawling universe with loads of great ideas, likable characters and great pace. The setup…
THE SIN IN THE STEEL by Ryan Van Loan The Fall of the Gods (Volume 1)
On the surface, Ryan Van Loan’s debut novel, The Sin in the Steel, could be seen as simply a fantasy adventure yarn with two…
ASHES OF THE SUN by Django Wexler (Burningblade and Silvereye#1)
A brother and sister separated at a very young age. A rebellious uprising against a strong-armed government. A post-apocalyptic world. Ancient magic and science,…
PEACE TALKS by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #16)
Peace Talks is the sixteenth novel in Jim Butcher’s best-selling Dresden Files series and finds Harry Dresden, unsurprisingly, at the center of supernatural chaos…
Doomsday Game by Gary Gibson
Doomsday Game is the third entry in Gary Gibson’s Apocalypse series. The first two books, Extinction Game (review) and Survival Game (review), were published…
THE RELENTLESS MOON by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #3)
In The Relentless Moon, the third novel in The Lady Astronaut series, Mary Robinette Kowal picks up the story of a world shattered by…
THE KINGDOM OF LIARS by Nick Martell
A fantasy debut novel emblazoned with a quote from Brandon Sanderson atop the dust jacket sets a certain expectation. Nick Martell’s The Kingdom of…
Short Story Review: Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird by Eric Schwitzgebel (Issue 151 Clarkesworld)
And here’s another short story review from Clarkesworld, , courtesy of J.K.A. Short. This time it is from Issue 151, published in April 2019: …
Short Story Review: ‘Tick Tock’ (Issue 152 Clarkesworld) by Xia Jia
Here’s a short story review from J.K.A. Short. Whilst the review is based on just one story, it has the depth that we at…
