ReviewBooks
The Art Of Clyde Caldwell (book review).
Another book I recently explored is ‘The Art of Clyde Caldwell’, primarily drawn to it by its captivating cover, having not encountered Caldwell’s…
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Novels, books and ebooks.
July 2024
ReviewScifi
The Utopia Of Us: An Anthology Inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’ edited by Teika Marija Smits (book review).
To celebrate the centenary of the original publication of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin, editor/author Teika Marija Smits envisioned an anthology of fifteen stories…
ReviewScifi
Cageworld No. 4: Star-Search by Colin Kapp (book review).
Cageworld No. 4: Star-Search is the final slim volume of Colin Kapp’s series, where the crew of the Shellback embarks on one last…
ReviewScifi
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (book review).
I was recently offered an anthology of short stories based on We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I accepted the book but felt obliged to…
ReviewFantasy
Three Kinds Of Lucky (The Shadow Age book 1) by Kim Harrison (book review).
Petra Grady is a sweeper, not a mage—a fact that every mage is happy to point out, feeling superior about it. All Petra…
ReviewScifi
Cageworld No 3: The Tyrants Of Hades by Colin Kapp (book review).
Considering the rate at which Colin Kapp’s Cageworld books were released in 1982, he must have been working at a rapid pace. In…
ReviewScifi
All Tomorrow’s Futures Fictions That Disrupt edited by Benjamin Greenaway & Stephen Oram (book review).
The future has always been a focus for writers. Writers have utilized both fiction and non-fiction to draw attention to issues that the…
ReviewBooks
A Closer Look At The Art Techniques Of Patrick Woodroffe (book review).
Another book I’ve been meaning to read is ‘A Closer Look At The Art Techniques Of Patrick Woodroffe,’ which I purchased a few…
ReviewScifi
This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour (book review).
Sweetmint has followed the rules of the Northwestern Hemisphere all her life. As a young, invisible woman, she must adhere to numerous rules.…
ReviewHorror
The Dulwich Horror & Others by David Hambling (book review).
I’d only recently come across David Hambling via his entry in a collection of stories, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, featuring Lovecraft himself…
ReviewHorror
The Elder Ice (A Harry Stubbs Adventures) by David Hambling (book review).
I really enjoyed this! As stories go, this was something like a mix between a ‘Call of Cthulhu’ game and an episode of…
June 2024
ReviewScifi
Cageworld No 2: The Lost Worlds Of Cronus by Colin Kapp (book review).
Back to Solaria, or what was left of our star system when the AI Zeus turned it into a set of Dyson spheres…