ReviewScifi
Time Salvager by Wesley Chu (book review).
I do like the cover art on Wesley Chu’s ‘Time Salvager’. It’s like one of those slightly blurred oil paintings and is very…
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Gareth D Jones
April 2016
ReviewScifi
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (book review).
Over the past few years I’ve been attempting to read some of the ‘classic’ SF books, those that won multiple awards or are…
March 2016
ReviewScifi
Made To Kill by Adam Christopher (book review).
I was sitting in my lounge, a book in my hand, reading in the yellow glow of the standard lamp. The book was…
ReviewComics
Doctor Who: Four Doctors by Paul Cornell and Neil Edwards (graphic novel review).
A couple of weeks back I watched ‘The Three Doctors’ again, which was originally aired before I was born, but I’ve seen at…
February 2016
ReviewScifi
Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen (book review).
Some time ago I dreamt that the new issue of ‘Interzone’ featured on the cover a story about giraffes in space. When I…
January 2016
ReviewScifi
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (book review).
It’s an intriguing set up for a story being set in a solar system as imagined back in the vary earliest days of…
ReviewScifi
Can & Can’tankerous’ by Harlan Ellison (book review).
For some reason I’ve never read any Harlan Ellison, which is odd considering he’s been writing longer than I’ve been alive. This new…
December 2015
ReviewScifi
The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts (book review).
The thing about ‘The Thing Itself’ is that it’s difficult to say what the Thing is, which is actually the whole point of…
ReviewFantasy
Ancillary Mercy (book 3) by Ann Leckie (book review).
The hype over Anne Leckie’s ‘Ancillary’ books is not exaggerated. The judges and nominators of all of the various awards were all correct.…
November 2015
ReviewScifi
Wastelands 2: Stories Of Life After Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams (book review)
Who doesn’t like a good post-apocalyptic tale? ‘The Postman’, ‘Waterworld’ and ‘I Am Legend’ are among my favourite films. In a short story…
October 2015
ReviewBooks
The Mammoth Book Of Steampunk Adventures edited by Sean Wallace (book review).
This is my second large dollop of steampunk in recent weeks, having polished off ‘The Mammoth Book Of Steampunk’ in short order. I’m…
ReviewBooks
The Mammoth Book Of Steam Punk edited by Sean Wallace (book review)
It’s been a while since I had any steampunk to read, so the chunky 500-page ‘Mammoth Book Of Steampunk’ was, I decided, an…