PaulineMorgan, Author at SFcrowsnest

Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett (book review).

To many, the term ‘fantasy’ means either an invented world where the technology level is mediaeval, the highest form being

It seems strange to be reading about a very contagious plague sweeping across the civilised world at a time when

Authors are very good at hunting out little documented information and embroidering it to produce something potentially spectacular. It is

Space Opera was a term coined in the 1930s and related to fictional adventures set almost entirely off-planet. Spaceships ignored

The idea of alternative histories and parallel worlds are tropes that have been common in SF and fantasy literature for

For anyone unfamiliar with the ‘Darkover’ series created by Marion Zimmer Bradley, it is Science Fiction with fantasy overtones. Although

Selkies are the seal people of Gaelic, Scottish and Scandinavian folklore. While spending most of their time in the sea,

What seems like a lifetime ago and is probably much more than that for some of the readers of this

There are two schools of thought regarding space travel in fiction. One is to stick to the science as we

Once a book has been published, it is impossible to correct flaws in the construction of a fantasy world without