ReviewScifi
Birdwatching At The End Of The World by G.W. Dexter (book review).
Stephen Ballantyne, our first-person narrator for Birdwatching At The End Of The World, is the only boy at Near School for Girls, Near…
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Eamonn Murphy
Eamonn Murphy has published over seventy stories in small-press magazines and collected them into affordable volumes for posterity. They are available at all good eBook retailers and libraries. In his spare time, he writes reviews for sfcrowsnest. See website: eamonnmurphywriter.com
August 2024
July 2024
ReviewScifi
The Utopia Of Us: An Anthology Inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’ edited by Teika Marija Smits (book review).
To celebrate the centenary of the original publication of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin, editor/author Teika Marija Smits envisioned an anthology of fifteen stories…
ReviewScifi
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (book review).
I was recently offered an anthology of short stories based on We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I accepted the book but felt obliged to…
ReviewMovie books
Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart (book review).
The title of Patrick Stewart’s autobiography, Making It So: A Memoir, aims squarely at Star Trek fans, but there are no Star Trek…
May 2024
ReviewScifi
Insignificant by Mike Morgan (book review).
The year is 2127; the Earth is dying, and nobody seems to notice or care. The United States government refuses to release any…
ReviewBooks
Fight Me by Austin Grossman (book review).
Super-hero novels are a bit of an oddity to me because I grew up reading about such characters in comic book form and…
April 2024
ReviewScifi
On Spec Magazine #127 Vol. 34 No. 1 (magazine review).
A dedicated team in Canada produces ‘On Spec’, a long-running speculative fiction magazine, on a tight budget. I tend to focus on the…
ReviewScifi
Echoes Of The Arcane: A Collection Of Short Fiction by Cody D. Campbell (e-book review).
‘Echoes of the Arcane’ by Cody D. Campbell has 20 stories over 183 pages, so many of them are shorter shorts, snippets, and…
ReviewScifi
A View From The Stars: Stories And Essays by Cixin Liu (book review).
‘A View From The Stars’ is a collection of stories and essays by celebrated Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu, best known for…
March 2024
ReviewComics
Project Cryptid #7 by Joseph Illidge, and A.A. Rubin (magazine review).
‘Project: Cryptid’ is a comic book from Ahoy Comics and must be doing okay because this is the seventh issue. It’s an anthology…
ReviewFantasy
The Land Below by William Meikle (book review).
Daniel Garland is a crusty ex-soldier with a fondness for alcohol and tobacco who is up for almost anything, so when Thomas and…
ReviewFantasy
The Land Below by William Meikle (book review)
Daniel Garland is a crusty ex-soldier with a fondness for alcohol and tobacco who is up for almost anything. So when Thomas and…