… I wasn’t planning to read the Horror and Fantasy novel categories for the British Fantasy Awards. And then I saw the shortlist and noted that of the 12 nominees across the two categories, I’d already read 6...
Read MoreThe shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award was as a follows (with handy hyper-links to my not so concise reviews): The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey (Orbit) The Book Of Strange New Things –...
Read More… I had no plans of reading the shortlist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award until Jonathan Strahan pointed it out to me this morning. Here are the finalists: The Race by Nina Allan A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias...
Read More… the magnificent Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – most definitely one of my favourite books for the 14/15 award season period.* (Thanks to Jonathan Strahan for pointing this out to me on Facebook this...
Read MoreIf you’re looking to wash the sour taste of the Hugo Awards out of your mouth, you might want to consider these six novels that were just announced as the nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Awards: The Girl With All The...
Read MoreI read 79 novels or author collections in 2014. Of those, 31 were written by woman and 48 were written by men. 49 of the novels were “core” genre in that they were recognisably written or published by someone...
Read MoreToward the end of his second decade in the airport, Clark was thinking about how lucky he’d been. Not just the mere fact of survival, which was of course remarkable in and of itself, but to have seen one world end and another...
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