Countdown to Hallowe’en 2016: Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
Randy’s latest review on our Countdown to Halloween is a recent Award winner: “I wasn’t gonna say anything to you kids – but there’s…
Category: Book Reviews
FEEDBACK by Mira Grant (Newsflesh #4)
Mira Grant (a.k.a. Seanan McGuire) returns readers to the world of her Newsflesh Trilogy, the world of 2040 where bloggers / online journalists hold…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2016 – A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
In the final week of our Countdown to Hallowe’en this year, Mark reviews an award-winning book that is just being published in the…
Ash & Flame: Season 1 by Wilson Geiger
A post-apocalyptic story of Biblical proportions (no joke), Ash & Flame: Season One is a story of one man and the impossible odds he…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2016: Victor Frankenstein (2015)
“You know this story”, the movie says in its first line. It is a bold and perhaps even a dangerous start, though the point…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2016: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Yes, you read that right, I’m reviewing Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus. Do you want to make something of it? A waste of time…
LEVEL GRIND: The Twenty-Sided Sorceress Volume 1 by Annie Bellet
Annie Bellet is a self-publishing sensation, who has achieved USA Today bestseller status while garnering a strong fanbase. Annie jumps from eBook to print…
Europe in Winter – Dave Hutchinson
“…it seemed as if there was nothing else happening in the world but the discovery that there was a parallel universe and it had…
The Croning by Laird Barron
As we continue our Countdown to Hallowe’en new SFFWorld staff member George Anadiotis reviews a debut novel, now a Horror classic. In the story…
Hand of Glory by Susan Boulton
A supernatural story set in the aftermath of World War One, Hand of Glory is the sort of book that makes you realize the…
AGE OF MYTH by Michael J. Sullivan (Legends of the First Empire #1)
When a novel opens with a man killing a god in revenge for the death of his father, you know you are in epic…
Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson
“I still wasn’t sure whether England was in Europe or not; I had the impression that the English would have quite liked to be…
NINTH CITY BURNING by J. Patrick Black
Post-apocalyptic alien invasion stories are a staple in the Speculative Fiction genre so when a debut novel comes along telling such a story it…
Secret Language by Neil Williamson
Secret Language is a collection of sixteen short stories from Neil Williamson, mixing genres and subjects from the fantastical to horror to futuristic. The…
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
Following on from Alastair’s recent collaboration with Stephen Baxter, here’s a solo effort that is also worthy of your attention. From the publisher: The…
Night Without Stars by Peter F Hamilton
Night Without Stars is Peter F Hamilton’s conclusion to his Chronicle of the Fallers duology, itself effectively a conclusion – at least for the…
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season, the first in a fantasy series titled The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin, has remarkable writing and intriguing characters. It is…
THE COPPER PROMISE by Jen Williams
Sword and Sorcery tales are some of the oldest published tales in fantasy, going back to the pulp era of C.L. Moore, Fritz Leiber,…
The Amazing Adventures of Dashing Prince Dietrich by Igor Ljubuncic
In Igor Ljubuncic’s latest fantasy tale, The Amazing Adventures of Dashing Prince Dietrich, we are treated (or maybe ‘tortured’ is more apt) to a…
Mostly Void, Partially Stars – Welcome to Night Vale, Volume 1 by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Have you ever listened to a podcast? Depending on whether you have or not, you may (or may not) know that Welcome to Night…
