ReviewScifi
Best Of British Science Fiction 2020 edited by Donna Scott (book review).
These ‘Best Of British-’ collections from Newcon Press always feature a lot of good stuff so I was pleased to get another for…
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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
September 2021
August 2021
ReviewScifi
Requiem For An Astronaut by Daniel Bennett (book review).
‘Requiem For An Astronaut’ by Daniel Bennett is another novella from Newcon Press. At a hundred pages, they provide the succinctness of a…
ReviewFantasy
Rose Knot: An Arthurian Tale by Kari Sperring (book review).
Not many people connect the Orkneys to Arthurian legend but King Lot of Orkney was married to Arthur’s sister, Morgause, it seems and…
ReviewFantasy
Swords & Steam Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (book review).
‘Swords & Steam: Short Stories’ is another big collection from Flame Tree Publishing that mixes old and new stories, this time in the…
ReviewBooks
Secrets In The Shadows: The Art & Life Of Gene Colan by Tom Field and Gene Colan (book review).
Gene Colan cut corners on his artwork. Every explosion was a full page. He’d use the side of his pencil to draw some…
July 2021
ReviewFantasy
The Moorcock Library: Elric: Stormbringer by P. Craig Russell (graphic novel review).
‘Elric: Stormbringer’ has two heroes: Stormbringer is a magic sword of great power. Elric is a miserable, pasty-faced whiner with a medical condition,…
ReviewFantasy
Occult Detective Magazine issue # 0 (emagazine review)
‘Occult Detective Magazine’ is a small British publication that builds on a tradition founded by William Hope Hodgson’s ace supernatural detective Carnacki that…
June 2021
ReviewScifi
Future Science Fiction Digest #11 (emag review).
Here’s another issue of ‘Future Science Fiction Digest’, the magazine of international SF. This one features stories from China, Russia, Belgium, the USA…
ReviewScifi
Kzine Issue 29 Kindle Edition (emag review).
‘Kzine’ is a little British magazine that publishes quality short fiction in several genres. The latest issue is up to its usual high…
May 2021
ReviewScifi
Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith (graphic novel review).
When you read that a book has been thirty-five years in the making, it gives you high expectations. Such is the case with…
ReviewComics
Orwell by Pierre Christin and Sebastian Verdier (graphic novel review).
Who would bother to make a graphic novel about English political writer George Orwell? The French, obviously. They are much more political. While…
ReviewScifi
Titan by Francois Vigneault (graphic novel review).
‘Titan’ is a graphic novel that’s written and crudely drawn by Francois Vigneault. Crudely but with gusto, good storytelling and a sort of…