Category: Book Reviews
There are certain authors with gravitas, you know when they publish a book or story, then it is worthy of attention simply by the…
This Fantasy novel is the latest debut here in the UK that is being highly promoted. It has a lot that you may recognise,…
Every year in the SFF publishing world, one book, one author seems to stand out as the debut of the year. Of course, much…
Magefall is the second novel in Stephen Aryan’s Age of Dread trilogy, preceded by Mageborn and to be followed later this year by Magebane.…
Michael Martinez begins the conclusion to Majestic 12, his Spies and Superpowers series with nothing less than the death of Joseph Stalin. This obviously…
As part of our ongoing commitment to reading older Science Fiction at SFFWorld, my latest read is one of Isaac Asimov’s earliest novels. In…
An urban fantasy of a different flavor, Gareth Hanrahan’s The Gutter Prayer is set not in our world, but in a dark city where…
Here’s the latest in my re-read of Heinlein’s Future History series. This one is slightly different, in that it is more of a novel…
Nemesis, the second novel in Alex Lamb’s Roboteer trilogy, is a novel I’ve been meaning to get to since its release in 2017. I…
David Mack returns readers to a world of global tension and sorcery in The Iron Codex, the second installment of his Dark Arts series.…
This is the third collection of Robert A. Heinlein’s so-called Future History. The first was The Man Who Sold the Moon (reviewed here), the…
So, here’s an unusual arrival for Doctor Who fans. Scratchman is a novel that, forty years ago, was the outline for a proposed movie…
Post-apocalyptic/dystopic stories are some of the most prevalent in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre. Musician Eyal Kless puts down his violin in favor of a…
The Green Hills of Earth is generally regarded as the second collection of Heinlein’s Future History stories, which showed us, in the Golden Age…
This time last year I was reviewing Alastair’s Elysium Fire, the sequel to The Prefect (aka Aurora Rising.) In 2019 I’m now looking at…
These days, William Hope Hodgson (1877-1914) is perhaps best known for his The House on the Borderland (1908) novel. It is undoubtedly worth reading,…
With only hints of our world in the narrative, Edward Lazellari goes full-bore into Epic Fantasy with Blood of Ten Kings, the finale to…
The character of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has been part of popular culture for quite a few years; a popular TV show in the…
Another year, another reread. Although it will have passed by the time you read this, as I approached the one-hundred-and-first anniversary of Sir Arthur’s…
Say this for Jon Hollins, he knows how to construct a world only to destroy it. He also knows how to build fascinating characters…