Author: T.O. Munro
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THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN by Mark Lawrence (Book Review)
There is, perhaps, a particular gravity about libraries that attracts speculative fiction authors. From the great library of the Unseen Academy, with its fearsome books and ... -
Interview with Anna Smith Spark (A WOMAN OF THE SWORD)
Anna Smith Spark is the author of the critically acclaimed grimdark epic fantasy trilogy Empires of Dust described by The Sunday Times as ‘Game of Literary Thrones … ... -
A WOMAN OF THE SWORD by Anna Smith Spark (Book Review)
A Woman of the Sword is set on the many-nationed continent of Irlast which featured in Smith Spark’s debut Empires of Dust trilogy. That trilogy followed ... -
HEL’S EIGHT by Stark Holborn (Book Review)
In Hel’s Eight, Holborn returns to the desolate moon of Factus and her ex-con protagonist Ten Low, both place and person strangely haunted by the “Ifs.” ... -
SANDMAN (Volume 1 – Preludes & Nocturnes) by Neil Gaiman (Reviewed by T.O.Munro)
I was brought up on 2000AD comics with Judge Dredd bestriding a post-apocalyptic landscape and a catalogue of other dystopian characters (Does Strontium Dog – a ... -
SMALL MIRACLES by Olivia Atwater (BOOK REVIEW)
While the Fantasy-Hive is not participating in this year’s Self-Publishing Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO) – the eighth such event – we do have some overlap with ... -
CHILDREN OF MEMORY by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW)
Having finished 2022 with Walking to Aldebaran I opened 2023 with another Tchaikovsky work Children of Memory, the third (and last?) in the series that began ... -
A GAMBLE OF GODS by Mitriel Faywood (BOOK REVIEW)
A Gamble of Gods, Mitriel Faywood’s speculative fiction debut, exuberantly merges sci-fi and fantasy millieux in a multi-world story following three different first-person point of view ... -
THE CARBON DIARIES 2015 by Saci Lloyd – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate ... -
DENIAL by Jon Raymond, reviewed by T.O.Munro
The phrase climate fiction and its abbreviation cli-fi was coined by journalist Dan Bloom[i] in a 2011 Press release for a novel Polar City Red (2012). Since ...
