The Lazarus Gate by Mark A Latham
Sometimes a book strikes you just by its entertainment value, sheer energy and enthusiasm, with a plot that takes the usual tropes and just…
Category: Book Reviews
SKYFARER (The Drifting Lands #1) by Joseph Brassey
A young mage on the cusp of realizing her full powers, a wizened mentor trying to train her, and an empire led by a…
Paradise Regained by Edward M. Lerner, a Short Story Review
Edward M. Lerner introduces us to a tale that at once is reminiscent of the stark ever winter world of the Yukon in Jack…
Acadie by Dave Hutchinson
This is another one of those short ‘Single’ novellas that Tor are producing at the moment. At a mere 112 pages, there’s not…
Motherboard by Jeffery Thomas, a Short Story Review
Everyone has their fave material. The world’s like it’s in a state of flux with all the content that is out there. Books, films,…
INJECTION BURN by Jason M. Hough
A missing space vessel, an alien world, and humans being pursued by an alien phalanx. In Jason M. Hough’s Injection Burn, those elements come…
Tomorrow’s Kin by Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is one of those authors who’s been writing for over four decades, writing about 30 SF novels and quietly collecting awards –…
HALLS OF LAW by V.M. Escalada
In Halls of Law, V.M. Escalada brings together familiar fantasy elements of a nation being invaded, a rigid military, people with supernatural mental abilities,…
Desperate Knight by Keith W. Willis
No time… No options… No plan… No one said saving the world would be easy. Morgan McRobbie and Lady Marissa duBerry swing back into…
The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but publishers like Tor are trying very hard to reintroduce readers to novellas – you know, something about…
The Nebula Awards Showcase 2017
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by…
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Must admit, I didn’t know that Martha Wells wrote SF. I do know her Fantasy books (The Cloud Roads, Books of the Raksura),…
AT THE TABLE OF WOLVES by Kay Kenyon
World War II, the years leading up to it, and the aftermath is [obviously] one of the most historic eras of modern human history.…
Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Strange Practice is a novel filled with monsters – to quote the book, “in its descriptive, rather than pejorative, sense”. This means that…
Darien: Empire of Salt by C F Iggulden
You may not (at first) recognise the author’s name: but readers of Historical Fiction may know of Conn Iggulden, author of nearly 20 fiction…
THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by R.S. Belcher
Jumping into a series for the first time at book 3 may not be the wisest reading choice, but that’s exactly what I did…
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
In crime novels one of the most common scenarios of the ‘whodunnit’ is ‘the locked-room mystery’ – that is where a crime (usually…
ALONE by Scott Sigler (Generations Trilogy #3)
In Alone, Scott Sigler brings his powerful and gripping Generations trilogy to a close, a science fiction saga that finds humanity having advanced far…
THE RELUCTANT QUEEN by Sarah Beth Durst
Spirits are still alive and potentially causing havoc in The Reluctant Queen, the second installment of Sarah Beth Durst’s fantasy saga, The Queens of…
The Rebellion’s Last Traitor by Nik Korpon
The idea that whoever wins the war writes the history is cruelly brought to life in The Rebellion’s Last Traitor. With ‘reach off the…
