Books Read The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan The Night Clocks by Paul Meloy The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken Currently Reading In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker (1) This week my review of Tade Thompson’s...
Read MoreWhat you’re all dying to know in this the third and final part of my analysis of Literary and Genre Awards is what were the best and worst shortlists for 2015. Of course the subjectivity here is all mine and the mileage...
Read MoreThe Memory Garden by Mary Rickert might be a début novel, but anyone who has read Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine in recent years, or keeps in touch with the plethora of Years Best anthologies, will be aware of M....
Read MoreI’ll be honest, there’s no way I would have read The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato if it hadn’t been nominated for a Locus award. For one, as I’ve ranted about previously, I’m not a fan of...
Read MoreA Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias is meat and potato science fiction in concept, but wagyu beef and crunchy sweet potato chips in execution. Or to be put it another way, I had a great deal of fun with A Darkling Sea, which is...
Read MoreIt took me five days to read The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley. For close to three days I was engaged with Staveley’s world building, the measured progression of the plot, and the development of the...
Read MoreWaistcoats and Weaponry by Gail Carriger is the third book this year that I didn’t have the patience to finish. Compared to the previous two novels – the Kevin J Anderson and Charles E Gannon – Carriger’s...
Read MoreWhile I was reading Half a King by Joe Abercrombie I kept having flashbacks (non acid related) to other fantasy novels and literary works. At first the book reminded me of a young adult version of Katherine Addison’s Hugo...
Read MoreI’ve always been a fan of Ian McDonald’s adult novels. While they overflow with ideas and insights there quite dense in regard to plotting and theme (in a good way). They’re books that need to be unpacked and...
Read MoreThe Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi is a novel that’s not afraid to be angry and passionate and more than a touch didactic. At times it feels like an episode of Jon Oliver’s Last Week Tonight in that it raises an...
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