THE WITCHWOOD CROWN (Book One of The Last King of Osten Ard) by Tad Williams
Can you return home? Can a writer fully revisit a world he left nearly twenty-five years ago? If you are Tad Williams and that…
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Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Lavishly sensual, sexuality breathes throughout the book, with a humming roar of violence lurking in the background, or sometimes just exploding across the page…
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Here’s an old Arthur C Clarke novel I’ve been meaning to re-read for a while. After recently reading the second book in Ian…
THE PREY OF GODS by Nicky Drayden
Nicky Drayden’s debut novel packs a lot of imagination and inventiveness in its comparatively short space – artificial intelligence, gender identity, oppressive government, gods…
New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey
This book is not what I expected. When you’re told a book is about ‘time-travel to Roman times’, you (or at least, I) expect…
The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey
You may not immediately recognise the name ‘M. R. Carey’, but Mike’s recent book, The Girl With All the Gifts (2014), was a…
The Space Between The Stars by Anne Corlett
The Space Between the Stars follows Jamie Allenby on a quest through space with impossible odds. The novel from Anne Corlett explores religion and…
BRIMSTONE by Cherie Priest
In terms of output, in variety, quality, and frequency, few can match Cherie Priest. From steampunk to gothic horror to urban fantasy to Lovecraftian…
The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James
When I sit and begin to write these reviews I am often fascinated by the history of the authors. Did the seed for the…
The Line of Polity by Neal Asher
The Line of Polity is the second novel in Neal Asher’s Cormac series, preceded by Gridlinked (review) and picking up events a short while…
The Dragon’s Legacy by Deborah A. Wolf
If the size and weight of The Dragon’s Legacy isn’t enough of a hint, this book should come with a warning: The Dragon’s Legacy…
Waters and the Wild by Jo Zebedee
Amy was five when she vanished during a family trip, only to be found hours later, clutching a golden acorn and claiming to have…
Iron Gods by Andrew Bannister
So, here’s the sequel to another of last year’s surprises – the first novel, Creation Machine, was one of my ‘surprisingly good’ reads – one…
Vanguard by Jack Campbell
For anyone that has followed my reviews in the past, either here at SFFWorld or over at Walker of Worlds, you’ll know I’m a…
COLD WELCOME by Elizabeth Moon (Vatta’s Peace #1)
Elizabeth Moon is one of the more versatile writers in the Speculative Fiction field, she can weave stories and novels with equal aplomb that…
Rhyming Rings by David Gemmell
Here’s something I didn’t expect to be typing about in 2017 – a new David Gemmell novel! The background is that the manuscript…
The Island Deception by Dan Koboldt
The Island Deception is Dan Koboldt’s follow up to his 2016 debut, The Rogue Retrieval (review), and the second novel in his Gateways to…
ASSASSIN’S FATE by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool Trilogy #3)
FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard, assassin, Tom Badgerlock the Holder, Catalyst, Prince, and father. He has been all these things, he has died and been brought…
The Heart of Stone by Ben Galley
Merciless. Murderer. Monster. He has been called many names in his time. Built for war and nothing else, he has witnessed every shade of…
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
I’ve been a fan of Neal Asher’s work for many years, though I can’t remember which of his books I first picked up. However,…
