News: 2020 Retro Hugo Award Winners for 1945 Announced
From the Hugo Awards website: The 1945 Retrospective Hugo Award winners were announced in an online ceremony produced by CoNZealand, the 78th World Science…
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News: World Fantasy Award 2020 Nominees Announced
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2019 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the virtual World Fantasy 2020 (WFC) convention,…
Summer Genre Reading Suggestions 2020
I normally put one of these articles out at SFFWorld about now. So it was a bit of a shock today to realise that…
Doomsday Game by Gary Gibson
Doomsday Game is the third entry in Gary Gibson’s Apocalypse series. The first two books, Extinction Game (review) and Survival Game (review), were published…
Short Story Review: Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird by Eric Schwitzgebel (Issue 151 Clarkesworld)
And here’s another short story review from Clarkesworld, , courtesy of J.K.A. Short. This time it is from Issue 151, published in April 2019: …
Short Story Review: ‘Tick Tock’ (Issue 152 Clarkesworld) by Xia Jia
Here’s a short story review from J.K.A. Short. Whilst the review is based on just one story, it has the depth that we at…
News: Locus Magazine Award 2020 Winners Announced
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the winners in each category of the 2020 Locus Awards. Winners were announced June 27, 2020 at the virtual Locus Awards…
A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
Look, most of the people reading this know what pleasure there is to be found in a book, right? I know that I’m probably…
The Martian Wind: An Interview with Rosie Oliver
Rosie Oliver’s progressive Science Fiction novella is set in the chasms of Mars where a nanite based system pumps air via pipes atop the…
News: Arthur C Clarke Award 2020 Nominees Announced
From the Arthur C Clarke Award Website: THE SHORTLIST FOR THE 34TH ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD IS: THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE…
The Hollow Tree by James Brogden
Now, it might not have escaped your notice that as Horror goes I quite like a bit of what is loosely termed ‘Folk Horror’…
News: 2019 Nebula Award Winners Announced
This year’s Nebula Awards® were announced in a virtual presentation last night, Saturday 30th May 2020 at 5pm PDT. The 2020 Awards are given…
Stormblood by Jeremy Szal
Now, I know that the idea of humans being adapted to a particular purpose is not a new one in SF – I’m thinking…
Imperial Earth by Arthur C Clarke
This is the latest in an occasional series where I reread old books from an old favourite, Arthur C Clarke (1917 – 2008). In…
News: BSFA Award Winners Announced
The BSFA Awards for works published in 2019 were announced online on Sunday 17th May 2020. Traditionally the Awards are announced at the UK…
The City of a Thousand Faces by Walker Dryden
If I said to you the words ‘Arabian Nights’ what images does that conjure up to you? If, like me, you are thinking desert…
A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher
So, this was one that came up in a discussion of post-apocalyptic novels in the Forums. Although it is not one based on viral…
The Kingdom of Liars by Nick Martell
Michael is the son of David Kingman, a man who killed the young son of the King. However, we begin the book not with…
Article: Alternate Worlds and Influences by Darren Shan
We recently asked Darren Shan (author of over 50 books to date, including the world-famous Cirque Du Freak and Zom-B series) to tell us…
Sanctuary by V V James
Sanctuary is one of those books that reads like an American television drama. Set in small-town America, it suggests that below the seemingly idyll…
