ReviewFantasy
The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy book 1) by James Logan (book review).
‘The Silverblood Promise’ is a debut novel by James Logan and makes for an engaging read. Can the disgraced heir to an ancient…
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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
October 2025
ReviewHorror
The Essential Horror Of Joe R. Lansdale (book review).
‘The Essential Horror Of Joe R. Lansdale’ contains what it says on the cover. An introduction by Joe Hill tells us how his…
September 2025
ReviewScifi
Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews With Legends of Science Fiction edited by Richard Wolinsky (book review)
‘Spaceships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! ‘Interviews With Science Fiction Legends’ is a book of interviews with a difference. Instead of having one author,…
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…
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…