ReviewScifi
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (book review).
As any good middle manager will tell you, spotting problems is easy. The challenge and the creativity is in finding the solutions. The…
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January 2015
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The Exiled Blade (The Assassini Trilogy book 3) by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (book review).
One, twice, three times a vampire…or not a vampire? ‘The Exiled Blade’ is the final book in ‘The Assassini Trilogy’, an alt-history/fantasy/intrigue series…
September 2014
ReviewFantasy
The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi (book review).
Escaping from Earth just a whisker or two ahead of the conscienceless, self-replicating Dragons unleashed on the planet by Matjek Chen of the…
March 2014
ReviewFantasy
A Memory Of Light (The Wheel Of Time book 14) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (book review).
A polite notice: this review contains spoilers! The book was published a year ago and I can’t imagine any circumstance where someone who…
December 2013
ReviewGames
Infiltration (board game: review).
Set in Fantasy Flight Games’ Android universe, home to the excellent ‘Android: Netrunner’ card game and the godawful timesink that is the original…
ReviewFantasy
The Towers Of Midnight (The Wheel Of Time book 13) by Robert Jordan with Brandon Sanderson (book review).
What more is there to say about ‘The Wheel Of Time’? What purpose in reviewing ‘Towers Of Midnight, the thirteenth in the series,…
September 2013
ReviewScifi
Sharps by K.J. Parker (book review).
As a sweeping generalisation, KJ Parker’s novels are intelligent, funny, brutal, thrilling and inaccessible. Parker’s gift – one of them, at least –…
July 2013
ReviewScifi
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (book review).
Hannu Rajaniemi is a magnificent bastard of a novelist, who – to echo a line I used it reviewing his book, http://neverenoughshelves.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-quantum-thief.html” his…
March 2013
ReviewScifi
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (book review).
I’ve been staring at ‘Jack Glass’ for over an hour, trying to find the best way to start this review. There’s little point…
ReviewGames
Android: Netrunner: The Card Game (card game review).
‘Android: Netrunner’ is a two-player ‘living card game’ (LCG) pitting a futuristic megacorporation against the wily hacker who wants to break into its…
February 2013
ReviewFantasy
The Outcast Blade (The Assassini book 2) by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (book review).
‘The Outcast Blade’ is the second ‘act’ of ‘The Assassini’, an alt-historic fantasy focusing on the political and romantic intrigues of fifteenth-century Venice;…
January 2013
ReviewScifi
Salvage And Demolition by Tim Powers (book review).
‘Salvage And Demolition’, the latest novella from Tim Powers, is a classic. I don’t necessarily mean it’s an enduring work of genius (though…