Moon Stuff
So: today it is 50 years since Man first landed on the Moon. I’m planning to spend the day watching, reading and listening to…
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Arthur C Clarke’s July 20th 2019
With the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, I thought that it might be fun to look at a book that, first…
Review: Children of Artifice by Danie Ware
Understated Science-Fantasy novels that should be collecting awards keep finding their way into my TBR pile. I’m not complaining. I love finding gems like…
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
In these days of constant media presence and social hype it sometimes can be quite difficult to remember that the main purpose of a…
News: Locus Award Winners 2019
Locus Magazine announced the winners of the 2019 Locus Awards during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, WA, which took place June 28 to…
A Clash of Cymbals by James Blish
And so, I get to the last in the Cities in Flight series, an imaginatively written but so far uneven set of novels created…
Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Some have noticed (about time too!) that Adrian Tchaikovsky, once mostly recognised for his Fantasy novels such as his Shadows of the Apt series,…
Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
One of my favourite old movies is When Worlds Collide (1951), directed by George Pal, a movie about Earth being destroyed by a collision…
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
As we roll around towards another Summer here at Hobbit Towers, it’s time to pick the now-traditional “Stephen King Summer Read”. I wasn’t exactly…
News: 2018 Nebula Award Winners
The Nebula Awards were announced last night. As shown at the Nebula Award website at https://nebulas.sfwa.org/news/ : Best Novel Winner: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal,…
Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein
In the latest of my Heinlein reviews we look at what is regarded as another addition to Heinlein’s Future History series, but one that…
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
With the nominations for the 2019 Hugo Awards being recently announced, I was also pleased that this year’s Worldcon in Dublin also nominated books…
News: Arthur C Clarke Award Short List
The Arthur C Clarke Awards have announced their short list for this year’s awards. From the Award Director: It’s a record-breaking year for the…
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
So, this is one (another one!) that I was inspired to read by Jo Walton. To paraphrase her comments, this is one of her…
Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell
Another oddity from the ‘Can’t Believe it’s True’ Department. This is another recent ‘discovery’ of an earlier version of what is regarded as a…
News: BSFA 2018 Awards Announced
The BSFA Awards are awarded each year to the Best Novel, Short Fiction, Artwork and Work of Non-Fiction as voted for by the members…
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
If you’ve been following my reviews for a while, you may know that I do like a good techno-thriller. I tend to think that…
Earthman Come Home by James Blish
Of the books that make up The Cities in Flight series, this is the longest and perhaps the one most widely recognised today. My…
Survival Game by Gary Gibson
Survival Game is the second novel in Gary Gibson’s Apocalypse trilogy, following on from events in the first book, Extinction Game (review). I really…
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
“History is just one damned thing after another.” Arnold Toynbee I’ve often said on the SFFWorld Forums that there are two elements that can…
