ReviewScifi
My Mother Murdered The Moon (NP Novella # 8) by Stephen Deas (book review).
I love reading novellas. They’re long enough that the author can tell a rich and detailed story but short enough that you can…
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November 2022
ReviewScifi
Galaxias by Stephen Baxter (book review).
To my mind, Stephen Baxter is one of Britain’s finest living authors of hard Science Fiction. Like Sir Arthur C. Clarke, with whom…
June 2022
ReviewFantasy
The Queen’s Assassin by James Barclay (book review).
It’s amazing to think that James Barclay’s first fantasy novel, the highly acclaimed ‘Dawnthief’ was published in the last century, in 1999 to…
February 2022
ReviewFantasy
The Dying Squad by Adam Simcox (book review).
‘The Dying Squad’ is Adam Simcox’s debut novel. It’s far from being his first work of creative fiction though. Simcox is a British…
January 2022
ReviewScifi
Corsair by James Cambias (book review).
‘Corsair’ is the second novel to come from the pen of James L. Cambias in 2015, an American Science Fiction author who also…
November 2021
ReviewHorror
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (book review).
I love reading ghost stories. I am also interested in learning about Japan, its people, culture and fiction. So when I got offered…
September 2021
ReviewScifi
On Arcturus VII by Eric Brown (book review).
The last few novellas with Eric Brown’s name on the cover that I’ve reviewed here were the four outings of the ‘Kon-Tiki Quartet’,…
April 2021
ReviewScifi
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 edited by Mercedes Lackey (book review).
I’m currently catching up on some books that have been on my ‘To Be Read’ pile for far too long. Top of that…
February 2021
ReviewHorror
The Children God Forgot by Graham Masterton (book review).
Graham Masterton is an experienced master of British horror writing, having published his first novel, ‘The Manitou’, in 1976 with more following on…
December 2020
ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2020, Volume 139 #752 (magazine review).
For years, if not decades to come, 2020 is likely to be known worldwide as the year of Covid-19. As I write this,…
November 2020
ReviewScifi
Iterations: The Kon-Tiki Quartet: Part Four by Eric Brown and Keith Brooke (book review).
‘Iterations’ is the fourth and final novella in Eric Brown and Keith Brooke’s ‘Kon-Tiki Quartet’ of interstellar adventures. I reviewed the first three…
October 2020
ReviewScifi
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2019, Volume 137 #746 (magazine review).
I was hoping that spending the last seven months working from home would have given me more time to read. Unfortunately, the opposite…