ECHO OF WORLDS by M. R. Carey
The first book of this duology, Infinity Gate, was perhaps my favourite read of 2023, so this second part has a great deal to…
Exclusive: TJ Klune Short Story
Next week sees the publication by Tor of Ravensong in paperback, the second book in TJ Klune’s Green Creek series. Ravensong is a…
THE DAUGHTER’S WAR by Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue Thief #0)
It has been roughly three years since Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief released to great acclaim (including a very positive review from yours truly). …
ART of MARVEL Studios: THE AVENGERS (ASSEMBLE) by Jason Surrell
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fifth, following Captain America: The…
FOUL DAYS by Genoveva Dimova (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters Volume 1)
Bulgarian/Balkan myth comes alive (or undead) in Foul Days by Genovena Dimova, which is the first part of her Witch’s Compendium of Monsters duology…
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…
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…
EVOCATION by S. T. Gibson
With her latest, S T Gibson has gone all Witches of Eastwick… set in modern-day Boston, Evocation tells of an occult elite, working under…
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 HOUSE THAT HORROR BUILT by Christina Henry
Horror novels about horror has become a genre unto itself in recent years, self-aware stories are often popular. Novels like Grady Hendrix’s The Final…
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.…
THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE by James Logan (The Last Legacy, Book 1)
One part caper, one part sword and sorcery adventure, one part murder mystery, The Silverblood Promise is the debut novel from James Logan and…
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 SLAIN DIVINE by David Dalglish (Vagrant Gods #3)
The Vagrant has helped to lead a rebellion against the forces who wish to subjugate his home of Thanet. Lucavi, the God-Incarnate is ready…
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)…
DRAGON MAGE by M.L. Spencer (Rivenworld #1)
I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord…
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…