Gareth D Jones, Author at SFcrowsnest

The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (book review).

I hardly know where to begin in describing Christopher Priest’s ‘The Adjacent’. It’s a multi-stranded novel that alternates the tale

A few years back I read the last three books in Alan Dean Foster’s long-running ‘Pip And Flinx’ series, a

The Irish Empire takes the place of the traditional British Empire in ‘The Time Roads’, an alternative history/steampunk tale from

Probably in common with a lot of the audience who have seen the 2017 live action film ‘Ghost In The

The partly-thawed Antarctic Peninsula seems like an obvious place to set a novel in a globally-warmed future, but it’s never

After the phenomenal ‘Ancillary’ trilogy, how could Ann Leckie hope to live up to expectations with ‘Provenance’? It’s a tough

The third book. ‘Emergence’, in Ken MacLeod’s ‘Corporation Wars’ trilogy continues straight on from the previous volume ‘Insurgence’ where, as

I’ve often found when reading Science Fiction from the 50s and 60s that what dates it more than the technology

After centuries of mankind’s increasing reliance on robots, they turn on their makers and wipe them out. That’s not what

The difficulty with time travel stories is that it’s very easy to tie yourself in knots whilst trying to make