Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
Just over twenty years ago, Stephen published a trilogy of books (The NASA Trilogy) set in an alternate near-future where human space exploration had…
Category: Book Reviews
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
It’s a bit of a shock to realise that it’s nearly fifteen years since I first read Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, Book One…
The Grip of it by Jac Jemc
When a book arrives with a blurb recommending it from Jeff Vandermeer, you sort’ve know what to expect – expect weird. This creepy tale…
The Song of the Sycamore by Edward Cox
Ed’s previous trilogy of novels (collectively known as The Guild Trilogy) have built up a reputation for stylistic grimness, a Grimdark sensibility but one…
THE RAGE OF DRAGONS by Evan Winter
A young man fights through the ranks of his military to become the best fighter/swordsman so he can take revenge upon those who wronged…
A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor
A return to a series that I was unexpectedly pleased with reading earlier this year. This is the second book in the series involving…
THE TOLL by Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest is a modern master of the southern gothic horror novel, her stories evoke fear with a pervading haunted atmosphere. Her latest novel,…
Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove
If science fiction can be considered to be a physical landscape as well as a literary type, then in the realm of “what if?”…
EMPRESS OF FOREVER by Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone is one of the smartest writers I’ve ever read, his Craft Sequence of novels have a depth few novels can approach. The…
Arthur C Clarke’s July 20th 2019
With the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, I thought that it might be fun to look at a book that, first…
Review: Children of Artifice by Danie Ware
Understated Science-Fantasy novels that should be collecting awards keep finding their way into my TBR pile. I’m not complaining. I love finding gems like…
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
In these days of constant media presence and social hype it sometimes can be quite difficult to remember that the main purpose of a…
WANDERERS by Chuck Wendig
The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic novel…one of the mainstays of Science Fiction for almost as long as the genre has been around and before, with some consideration…
A VEIL OF SPEARS by Bradley P. Beaulieu (The Song of Shattered Sands #3)
As readers have seen in the previous two books of The Song of the Shattered Sand epic, (Twelve Kings of Sharakai and With Blood…
What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes
What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes is a stand-alone, historical novel set in South America during the eighteen century. This story has ships,…
A Clash of Cymbals by James Blish
And so, I get to the last in the Cities in Flight series, an imaginatively written but so far uneven set of novels created…
VELOCITY WEAPON by Megan E. O’Keefe
Waking up after two centuries of cold sleep on a starship with little memory of your last hours, finding the starship devoid of life,…
Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Some have noticed (about time too!) that Adrian Tchaikovsky, once mostly recognised for his Fantasy novels such as his Shadows of the Apt series,…
Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
One of my favourite old movies is When Worlds Collide (1951), directed by George Pal, a movie about Earth being destroyed by a collision…
TIME’S DEMON by D.B. Jackson (The Islevale Cycle #2)
Time travel, when portrayed effectively, illustrates the drastic consequences of changing a time line or interfering with history. In Time’s Demon, the second installment…
