Category: Book Reviews
Terminal Alliance, the first book in Jim C Hines’ new Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse series, can be summed up in one word: fun. It’s…
Dragons flying in the sky, an arranged marriage between two upper class youths, a broken city… one might be forgiven for thinking The Sky…
Clockwork ghosts and the patterns of departed souls comprise a techno-synergetic society. A microcosm of human habitation flies across the vast loneliness of space.…
This is one that passed me by last year when it was first released. I’m pleased I caught up with it, though. It’s…
Invaders From Beyond caught me with its tagline, and I do rather like Attack The Block and The World’s End. What we have here…
The Lost Plot is full of life and wit from the start. The reader is thrown into the thick of things with the trials…
Ah: Christmas. By the time you read this, Christmas will have just gone for another year, although as I type this it is…
Don’t call me Abraham; call me Abe. Though it’s what my ma named me, I’ve never liked Abraham. It’s a name that sounds so…
A guest review from writer and Forumite Jo Zebedee: It had been a full year since I read Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald before…
Five books planned, five books finished at the rate of about one per year. That alone is an impressive accomplishment for a fantasy writer.…
After our recent revisit to the re-released first book in this series, here’s the latest release in this future detective story. This one’s…
Alastair Reynolds’ new novel Elysium Fire is due out in a couple of weeks. It is a sequel to the first book in this…
Let’s just keep this short and sweet. Read this book. … I suspect, however, as you’re here for a review that statement isn’t enough.…
Anthony Laken brings a fresh voice to Steampunk by taking the reader away from nineteenth Century England in his debut novel from Luna Press…
What can an author team do seven books into an extremely successful book series that is both a New York Times bestseller and the…
Rendezvous with Rama caused a bit of a stir with its publication in 1973. It was the much-heralded return to novel-writing by Arthur C.…
It is perhaps fitting that, on the centenary birthday of Sir Arthur, I re-read and review Sir Arthur’s first published novel, Prelude to Space.*…
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr.…
As we count down to Christmas, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere like to curl up with a good ghost story. Here’s one…
Here’s a Guest Review from one of our regular Forumites. Elias is a blogger and has been a Forumite at SFFWorld for over fifteen years.…