THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS by Sarah Brooks
I have always fancied travelling on one of those luxury train journeys. Stepping into the footsteps left by explorer Michael Palin (or perhaps less…
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2023 Nebula Awards winners announced
The Nebula Awards ® for 2023, presented on June 8th 2024, have been announced. These results are as follows: 2023 Nebula Awards® Best Novel…
The Saga of a Collection – or how it took me 44 years of trying, to finally get what I wanted.
So: here’s a story about how it took me 44 years to finally get a story collection. Quick background for context. It is 1980.…
SEEKER by Samuel Griffin
Historical fiction readers, if I said “Regency novel” to you, what comes to your mind? Elegant dresses, lavish house parties, coffee house meetings, callous…
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER – THE ART OF THE MOVIE By Matthew K. Manning
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fourth, following Iron Man 2,…
IN OUR STARS by Jack Campbell
In the year 2180, Lieutenant Selene Genji of the Unified Fleet sees Earth destroyed, despite the Unified Fleet’s attempt to stop it. The resultant…
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley
Time travel is one of the most– if not the most – science-fictional tropes of all time. Thanks mainly to good ol’ H. G.…
EXTINCTION by Douglas Preston
It’s been 34 years since the novel Jurassic Park was published. Many movies and sequel novels later, Douglas Preston writes a great blockbuster summer-beach-kind-of…
SPARKS OF BRIGHT MATTER by Leeanne O’Donnell
Sparks of Bright Matter is a novel combining descriptions of 18th century London with rural Ireland, the search for a missing object of importance…
THE MARS HOUSE by Natasha Pulley
January Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so)…
NEWS: 2024 Philip K Dick Award winner announced
The winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award, given for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, was…
NEWS: BSFA Award Winners Announced
The 2024 BSFA Award winners (for material published in 2023) have been announced at Eastercon. The awards were voted on by members of BSFA…
SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW by Aurora Ascher
I’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many…
NEWS: 2024 Hugo Award Nominees announced
From the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon team: The 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award nominees have been announced. The awards will…
MURDER ROAD by Simone St James
It’s July 1995. April and Eddie Carter are newly-weds on their way to a stay at the Five Pines Resort, a cheap motel on…
FATHOMFOLK by Eliza Chan
At its simplest, Fathomfolk is a fantasy tale of underwater folk. More than that, though, Fathomfolk is a story about differences – differences between…
60 at 60: Hobbit’s Update
Hello everyone! So, in 2014 I was 50. To celebrate that, of a sort, I made up a list of 50 books/series that were…
THE ART OF IRON MAN 2
Imagine that we’re back to 2010. The huge success of the movie Iron Man in 2008, with over $500 million made means that Marvel…
AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S T Gibson
From the publisher: “Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid…
THE TRIALS OF EMPIRE by Richard Swan
Following events in The Tyranny of Faith, Konrad Vonvalt is now a disgraced and powerless ex-Justice. With the Imperialist Magistratum disbanded, and by the…
