ReviewScifi
Waking The Warriors by Ben Okri (book review)
When mainstream writers venture into the realms of SF or fantasy the result is often a disaster, partly because it is not the…
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October 2026
ReviewFantasy
Songs Of The Dead: The Strata Wars book 1 by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian (book review).
Collaborative writing is difficult to master. Some, like Iain Grant and Heide Goody, produce fiction where it is almost impossible to separate the…
ReviewFantasy
The Deep And The Drowned (Cutlass & Crow book 1) by Ian Green (book review)
Pauline Morgan finds Ian Green's grimdark nautical fantasy, The Deep And The Drowned, cluttered, confusing and short on characters worth following.
September 2026
ReviewScifi
Time To Burn by Ellery Lloyd (book review).
Inigo Frank is the genius behind ‘Tempus Tours’. He provides a service for the very rich to go back in time and experience…
ReviewScifi
The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (book review).
The idea of time travel has been around for a very long time. Many readers will be familiar with H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time…
ReviewScifi
God’s Vengeance by Theresa Derwin (book review).
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to write the story…
August 2026
ReviewFantasy
Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan (book review).
There is a growing tendency to label books as ‘cosy’. Basically, this means that although characters may be placed in danger, they are…
ReviewFantasy
Seasons Of Glass And Iron: Stories by Amal El-Mohtar (book review).
People read collections of short stories for various reasons. Often it is because they have read novels by the author and don’t want…
ReviewFantasy
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (book review).
Words change. Sometimes it is their recognised meaning, as with ‘gay’, and sometimes their spelling. The word ‘gramyre’ evolved into ‘grammar’, although the…
July 2026
ReviewHorror
Paranormal Payback edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes (book review).
One of the most popular sub-genres of fantasy deals with the paranormal, its pages littered with witches, ghosts, vampires and the occasional zombie.…
ReviewScifi
Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (book review).
At the end of each monthly meeting of the rangers overseeing the reserves around the Blackwater Estuary, there is a ceremony called the…
June 2026
ReviewBooks
The Recollections: Fragments From A Life In Writing by Christopher Priest (book review).
Christopher Priest died at 80 in 2024. This is a collection of his non-fiction pieces, assembled and introduced by his third wife, novelist…