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The Double-Edged Sword: A Tale Of The Fallen Hero by Ian Whates (book review).
‘The Double-Edged Sword: A Tale Of The Fallen Hero’ is a short novella by Ian Whates in the grand old sword and sorcery…
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December 2020
ReviewScifi
London Centric: Tales Of Future London edited by Ian Whates (book review).
In this new collection from NewCon Press, editor Ian Whates has drawn together tales of future Londons that range from near-future versions of…
August 2020
ReviewFantasy
Soot And Steel: Dark Tales Of London edited by Ian Whates (book review).
Editor Ian Whates provides a fascinating introduction to this book, ‘Soot And Steel: Dark Tales Of London’, telling us how the chance discovery…
August 2019
ReviewScifi
Dark Currents edited by Ian Whates (anthology book review).
‘Dark Currents’ is an anthology of short stories from interesting little publisher NewCon Press for which the authors were given one simple prompt:…
January 2019
ReviewScifi
2001: An Odyssey In Words edited by Ian Whates and Tom Hunter (book review).
To celebrate the centenary of Arthur C. Clarke’s birth, NewCon Press has produced a volume of stories that all contain exactly 2001 words.…
ReviewScifi
The Smallest Of Things by Ian Whates (book review).
I’d been aware of Ian Whates as a Science Fiction author for some years, but never got around to reading any of his…
April 2018
ReviewScifi
The Ion Raider (book 2) by Ian Whates (book review).
Second books of either a trilogy or a series are notoriously difficult to write, especially if it is accepted that some readers will…
April 2015
ReviewScifi
Pelquin’s Comet (Volume 1 of The Dark Angels) by Ian Whates (book review).
Ian Whates is well-known in the British Science Fiction and Fantasy community as an author, anthologist and publisher. He runs the award-winning small…
April 2013
ReviewScifi
Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book Of Science Fiction edited by Ian Whates (book review).
Ian Whates has created a strong reputation for himself as an editor who produces exciting anthologies of short speculative fiction. In the same…
December 2012
ReviewScifi
The Noise Revealed by Ian Whates (book review).
‘The Noise Revealed’ is the sequel to ‘The Noise Within’ and I’m sorry to say, I still have no idea what any of…
November 2012
ReviewScifi
The Noise Within by Ian Whates (book review).
You would think that with a title like ‘The Noise Within’ that author Ian Whates had produced a book to justify the title.…