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- 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 With all the Gifts and The Boy On the Bridge (back in 2017), not to mention his script writing for the comics of XMen and Wolverine, ‘M’ (aka Mike) seems to…
- 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 this post-apocalyptic nightmare a potential future for us all. The book lives up to its genre. Downfall is a thrilling read. By creating characters that don’t conform, don’t disappoint, and stacked…
- Gems lurk in dusty corners, and the recent revival of classic crime fiction has seen books scaling the bestseller charts after being out of print for up to three-quarters of a century, while many new novels pay tribute, with varying degrees of awareness, to their Golden Age predecessors. How many commentators (or publishers) had the…
- It should really go without saying that for a voracious book reader (like myself!) books about books, or libraries, or bibliophiles should be an automatic win. Well, for me, it certainly scores points. But, with that in mind, I must admit that I was a little disappointed by The Left Handed Booksellers of London, Garth’s…
- Congratulations to finalists for the 58th Annual Nebula Awards. Nebula Award for Novel Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor) Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom) Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) Babel, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD;…
- The nominations for the British Science Fiction Association have been announced. The Awards given in 2023 are for publications from 2022. They are: BEST ARTWORK Alyssa Winans, Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard, Gollancz Manzi Jackson, Cover of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Macmillan Chris Baker, Cover of…
- There are forgotten characters in all of literature, or maybe minor characters who had impact on the story in which they appear, but are then cast off after their purpose of driving the plot has been served. One might even say they become an afterthought. In Gwendolyn Kiste’s Reluctant Immortals, two of those kinds of…
- “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. Although I’m a regular reader of his fiction work, including his wonderful Bryant and May stories, I’d not heard of this one, and not noticed it in the shops. Not really…
- In which we return to the land of The Empire of the Wolf. After the events in Galen’s Vale (as given in the first book of this Epic Fantasy series, The Justice of Kings, reviewed HERE) Justice Konrad Vonvalt, his clerk and protegee Helena Sedanka, his bodyguard taskman Dubine Bressinger and retainer Sir Radomir, the…
- The island nation of Thanet is still in turmoil, the Everlorn Empire is still holding on to power while the rebellion is fractured. The Vagrant has been taking down many of the Empire’s leaders and the gods of Thanet are unsettled. The Sapphire Altar is the second book in David Dalglish’s Vagrant Gods series, which…