THE FERRYMAN by Justin Cronin
It’s been seven years since the last of Justin’s vampiric Passage Trilogy, The City of Mirrors – was published. This is his first book…
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PERILOUS TIMES by Thomas D Lee
If you have been reading genre fiction for a while, you may notice certain patterns and trends appear and reappear. There was the phase,…
SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh
Emily Tesh is the winner of the World Fantasy Award Best Novella for Silver in the Wood in 2020, an Astounding Award winner and…
News: BSFA Award Winners 2022 Announced
The winners for the British Science Fiction Association Awards have been announced. The Awards given in 2023 are for publications from 2022. The winners…
For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel
With this third book in the Take Them to the Stars series, which began with A History of What Comes Next (reviewed HERE) and…
INFINITY GATE by M. R. Carey
Some of you may know that I’ve been a fan of ‘M’s for a while. From Felix Castor (back in 2007) to The Girl…
Downfall by Louise Carey
Forget binge-watching. Louise Carey’s Inscape series is the binge-read series you need in your life. Like all memorable reads, Louise Carey makes…
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
Gems lurk in dusty corners, and the recent revival of classic crime fiction has seen books scaling the bestseller charts after being out of…
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix
It should really go without saying that for a voracious book reader (like myself!) books about books, or libraries, or bibliophiles should be an…
News: Nebula Award Nominees 2023
Congratulations to finalists for the 58th Annual Nebula Awards. Nebula Award for Novel Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor) Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)…
News: BSFA Nominations 2022
The nominations for the British Science Fiction Association have been announced. The Awards given in 2023 are for publications from 2022. They are: BEST…
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
“Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you’re dead.” I picked this up on hearing of Chris’s death last week.…
Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell
I think that Ramsey Campbell is one of our genre authors who should be better known. Although you might not recognise the name, he’s…
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
One of my favourite old SF authors, Sir Arthur C Clarke, once said “How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly…
City Of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer
This YA’s comparison to Gotham intrigued me, but after reading it, comparing City of Nightmares to the origin stories of the DC universe doesn’t…
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Must admit that I approached this book knowing nothing about it, although the book comes with a high degree of provenance, as author Hays…
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
When I reviewed Leigh’s first adult Fantasy novel, Ninth House, I said that “Ninth House is worthy of the accolades being given it. I am…
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Hannah Fawcett
From the publisher: “Emily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost expert on the study of faeries; she is a genius…
SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2022 (Part 3) – Film and TV
Here’s the third and last part of our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. Part 3: Genre TV…
The Dragonfly Delivery Company by Keith W. Dickinson
Keith W. Dickinson gleefully returns to Hammersmyth with another adventure for Dexter the mechanical cat, and his unlikely partner, John Sinister. Washerwomen, captains, and…
