ReviewScifi
Marcher by Chris Beckett (book review).
‘Marcher’ is the second published novel by Chris Beckett, with the cover proclaiming loudly that it is a winner of the Arthur C.…
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DavidCorby
February 2025
ReviewScifi
Titan by Ben Bova (book review).
‘Titan’ is the second book I have reviewed by Ben Bova. The first was ‘Earth,’ and both form part of Bova’s epic, future-history…
August 2024
ReviewBooks
Star Wars: Choice Of One by Timothy Zahn (book review).
This reviewer has a confession to make: it has probably been at least thirty years since I read a `genre’ novel. Leaving aside…
ReviewScifi
Earth by Ben Bova (book review)
Ben Bova should not need much introduction to SF fans. Bova has won the Hugo Awards no less than six times and has…
ReviewScifi
The Games by Ted Kosmatka (book review)
‘The Games’ was the first novel by prolific short form author Ted Kosmatka. First novels are always interesting. Will this author make mistakes…
May 2024
ReviewFantasy
A Guile Of Dragons (A Tournament Of Shadows book 1) by James Enge (book review).
James Enge’s ‘A Guile Of Dragons’ is the first book in the `A Tournament of Shadows’ series. As such it is not strictly…
ReviewHorror
The Glasshouse (Polestars 3) by Emma Coleman (book review).
This third volume of Polestars, titled ‘The Glasshouse’, is by Emma Coleman. I will admit that Emma Coleman is a new name to…
March 2024
ReviewHorror
Umbilical (Polestars 2) by Teika Marija Smits (book review).
The ‘Polestars’ books, of which this is the second, are anthology collections and are each by a different contemporary author. The first volume,…
ReviewScifi
Strange Attractions (Polestars 1) by Jaine Fenn (book review).
The ‘Polestars’ books, of which there are three volumes, are anthology collections and are each by a different contemporary author. The first volume,…
January 2024
ReviewFantasy
Tournament Of Shadows by Pauline E. Dungate (book review).
Pauline Dungate is something of an SF renaissance woman. She has been a past Arthur C Clarke award judge and is a noted…
ReviewScifi
The Humani by Stephen Palmer (book review).
The Humani is a Science Fiction novel by Stephen Palmer, an author who has penned over 20 novels, some in series, since the…
September 2023
ReviewScifi
Universal Language: The Airlocked Room Mystery by Tim Major (book review).
‘Universal Language: The Airlocked Room Mystery’ is a Science Fiction novella by Tim Major who has published six plus novels as well as…