ReviewScifi
Unknown Destinies volume 1, edited by Fiction4All (ebook review).
‘Unknown Destinies Volume 1’ is an anthology of twenty-one stories from different authors, but not twenty-one different authors as some have several yarns…
The SFcrowsnest archive
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 2025
August 2025
ReviewFantasy
Outer Lands (Comixology Originals) by Matthew Arnold and David Gianfelice (e-graphic novel review).
Before tempting potential buyers with a positive review, it’s best to include a caveat. ‘Outer Lands’ is a Comixology Original, exclusive to Kindle…
ReviewComics
The Avengers In The Veracity Trap! by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho (graphic novel review).
‘The Avengers In The Veracity Trap’ is a new adventure that harks back to the very early days of Marvel’s Avengers, a superhero…
ReviewScifi
Drive Or Be Driven: Stories Of Travel (Polestars 6) by Aliya Whiteley (book review).
‘Drive Or Be Driven’ by Aliya Whiteley is the sixth book in the ‘Polestars’ series of individual author short story collections from Newcon…
ReviewFantasy
The Society Of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown (book review).
The bad news, reader, is that you cannot join the Society of Unknowable Objects. Membership is inherited, passed down from father to son…
July 2025
ReviewFantasy
Elephants In Bloom (Polestars 5) by Cécile Cristofari (book review).
‘Elephants In Bloom’ by Cécile Cristofari is the fifth book in the Polestars series of individual author short story collections from NewCon Press.…
June 2025
ReviewScifi
The River Blade by T.R. Thompson (book review)
‘The River Blade’ by T.R. Thompson is a mix of the Science Fiction and detective genres which mostly takes place in a virtual…
ReviewHorror
Animals by Geoff Ryman (book review).
‘Animals’ by Geoff Ryman is a horror novel and a family story with a large degree of anthropomorphism in it. The anthropomorphism in…
ReviewScifi
Vital Signals: Virtual Futures, Near-Future Fictions edited by Dan O’Hara, Tom Ward & Stephen Oram (book review).
‘Vital Signals’ has thirty stories in two hundred pages, so that’s about six pages per yarn, but it’s a bit less because there’s…
ReviewScifi
Rowany de Vere And A Fair Degree Of Frost by Chaz Benchley (book review).
Rowany de Vere is a secret agent working for the Colonial Service in the British Empire’s Mars colony. ‘It was the second Christmas…
May 2025
ReviewFantasy
The Hamlet by Joanna Corrance (book review).
‘The Hamlet’ is another book in ‘NP Novella set 2’, distinguished from ‘NP Novella set 1’ by their smaller size, so Newcon Press…
ReviewBooks
How To Write A Short Story, Get Published & Make Money: Short Story Writing Advice With Examples by Christopher Fielden (book review)
Books on how to write probably sell better than fiction. Everyone is familiar with the multimillionaire success stories of Stephen King, JK Rowling,…