Equinox by David Towsey
This is not the first story we’ve had lately that takes a Fantasy setting and set a murder-mystery within it – see also Richard…
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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent comments in the SFFWorld Forums coincidentally led to this omnibus tome arriving on my desk. I approached it with some caution, admittedly. Whilst…
Until the Last of Me by Sylvain Neuvel
I last reviewed the first book in this series back in 2021. A History of What Comes Next told us of the covert actions…
Mickey7 by Edward Ashton
Mickey Barnes is an Expendible – the person on a colony spaceship who is used for those activities when a human is necessary, but…
Review: Mythaxis.co.uk
The idea that ‘free’ fiction equals a substandard quality is once again debunked. This time by the U.K. site, Mythaxis.co.uk, which has been home…
Age of Ash by Daniel Abraham
It seems a long time ago now that both Rob Bedford and I were first singing the praises of Daniel Abraham*. Although he has…
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
In my other life (away from SFFWorld) I have spent a fair bit of time with maps (although perhaps not as much as some…
The Captain’s Daughter by Peter F Hamilton
The Captain’s Daughter is the second instalment in Peter F Hamilton’s Arkship Trilogy, currently released as audio exclusives, and following on directly from A…
Ghost: 100 Stories to read with the Lights On Edited by Louise Welsh
For a few years now, around Christmas time, it has become a bit of a tradition for publisher Head of Zeus to release a…
The Amber Crown by Jacey Bedford
In her latest Fantasy novel, Bedford delivers her usual high standard of character development and world building with a tale that feels traditional enough…
The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
I am of a certain age to remember the old 1960’s and 70s Hammer Horror movies with some fondness. For some people reading that…
Sam Gunn Jr. by Ben Bova
We begin this one with a shocking revelation in the first sentence: Sam Gunn, that entrepreneurial maverick of many a Ben Bova story, the…
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
Stamford led me to the chemistry laboratories. It was deserted except for a man hunched over a lab bench in the back of the…
Chocky by John Wyndham
John Wyndham (actually John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris) is a British author who seems to be fairly unknown these days. Although The Day…
The Anomaly by Herve le Tellier
This book has been generating a lot of interest since its publication in France in 2020. Not only was it a bestseller there it…
SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2021 (part 3)
Part 3: Film and TV Film Mark Y: Despite the ongoing COVID restrictions, there’s been a lot to see and much that I have…
SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2021 (part 1)
Here’s our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. To begin with: Part 1: Fantasy & Horror Books…
Hugo Awards, Astounding Award, Lodestar Award 2021 Announced
Winners for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced by DisCon III, the 79th…
Stephen Palmer Guest Blog: Are Black and White Moral Choices Always a Good Thing?
If we accept that novels are always about something, we could accept that in the main they are about choices – ethical, moral, social…
Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken McLeod
Beyond the Hallowed Sky begins with a mystery and a scientific discovery. Brilliant scientist Lakshmi Nayak receives in the post a letter from an…
