Sorry for how long this has taken (for the three of you who have been hankering for this review), it’s hard writing something reasonably detailed for 16 bloody stories. And this review is going to have quite a few more spoilers than normal, so I apologise in advance.   Anyway, another day, another Benny book – …

Continue reading »

Due to popular demand (that popular demand being one person – HI SARA) I’ve decided to fill people in on the bits of my life that don’t appear in Jule’s journal. ….. Yep, that about wraps it up from me. OK. OK. Jules bought me the most gorgeous Fossil watch for our first year anniversary.  …

Continue reading »

At last month’s Nova Mob (a gathering of science fiction fans in Melbourne where we discuss all things literary and SF), my bookseller, Justin Ackroyd, handed me a copy of Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s latest novel, End of the World Blues.  Nominated for the Arthur C Clarke Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award) Justin asked if I’d read the book …

Continue reading »

 Parallel Lives is a Bernice Summerfield Adventure featuring three connected novellas by Rebecca Levene, Stewart Sheargold and Dave Stone with additional linking material by Simon Guerrier. The over-arching story deals with the disappearance of Ms Clarrisa Jones, Irving Braxiatel’s secretary and baby-sitter to Benny’s little boy Peter. It appears she’s done a runner from the Collection, which …

Continue reading »

I fell in love with Max Barry’s writing before there was a Max Barry.  I don’t mean that literally, obviously, Max existed prior to me reading his work – at least I think so.  What I mean is that I read the first chapter of Syrup (his first book) a few weeks before its publication …

Continue reading »

Many of the reviews I write this year are gonna be franchise fiction related. I could come up with a number of well thought out reasons why this is the case but, if I have to be honest, I’ve got a backlog of the bastards on my shelf and I it’s beginning to annoy me. …

Continue reading »