ReviewBooks
DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes by Les Daniels (book review).
I have to confess I picked up this book, ‘DC Comics: A Celebration Of The World’s Favourite Comic Book Heroes’ by Les Daniels,…
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August 2025
ReviewScifi
Wild Cards: Ante Up: a graphic novel by Kevin Andrew Murphy and John Jos. Miller with art by Jon Sanchez (graphic novel review)
Random House has released a third ‘Wild Cards’ graphic novel. This time, ‘Wild Cards: Ante Up: a graphic novel’ by Kevin Andrew Murphy…
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Why Call Them Back From Heaven? by Clifford Simak (book review).
Some titles deserve stories that match their significance. I personally achieved this with ‘Nanny State’ for SFC, delivering an unexpected twist while elevating…
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Chasing The Sun by Linda Geddes (book review).
I haven’t reviewed any science books here for a while, so I’ve been looking for some for your consideration. For starters, we have…
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Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe (book review).
Gene Wolfe is a very well-respected author of fantasy. I suspect that many readers, just like myself, know of him primarily through ‘The…
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21st Century Foss by Chris Foss (book review).
‘21st Century Foss’ has been on my wants list for quite a while, and one popped up cheaply on the auction website, so…
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Dead Lions (Slough House thrillers book 2) by Mick Herron (book review).
An ex-streetwalker, Richard Bough, aka Dickie Bow, spots a Russian spook in London and pursues him out to Oxford; along the way, the…
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Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver (book review).
It is the year 2050. The Earth is suffering under the effects of climate change. Ten years ago, well over 160 million people…
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Drive Or Be Driven: Stories Of Travel (Polestars 6) by Aliya Whiteley (book review).
‘Drive Or Be Driven’ by Aliya Whiteley is the sixth book in the ‘Polestars’ series of individual author short story collections from Newcon…
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The Society Of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown (book review).
The bad news, reader, is that you cannot join the Society of Unknowable Objects. Membership is inherited, passed down from father to son…
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Dark Wraith Of Shannara by Terry Brooks (book review).
There are surly no fans of fantasy who have not heard of Terry Brooks. His seminal first novel, ‘The Sword Of Shannara’ is…
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The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson (book review).
Now writers Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson wrote ‘The Glass Inferno’ in 1974, and another book, ‘The Tower’ by Richard Martin…