Author: T.O. Munro
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THE GIRL AND THE STARS by Mark Lawrence (Book Review)
And so I finish 2019 as I started it: with a review of a Mark Lawrence ARC, my fifth of the year and my 50th book ... -
The Mystery of Speculative Fiction: THE HEALER and THE CITY AND THE CITY
Murder mysteries and speculative fiction are two very different genres. But what would happen if Hercule Poirot had an excursion into Twilight, or Detective Inspector Rebus ... -
THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST by Ursula K. Le Guin (Book Review)
This is the latest “SF Masterwork” that I picked off a Waterstones shelf as part of my occasional self-education in the classis of speculative fiction. The ... -
THE CALL by Peadar O’Guilin (Book Review)
At a convention recently, I heard O’Guilin explain how he didn’t realise he was writing Young Adult fiction when he started as an author; that this ... -
CARVED FROM STONE AND DREAM by T. Frohock (Book Review)
This is the fifth story in Teresa Frohock’s Los Nefilim series, though it’s the second that is a more conventional full novel length, rather than the ... -
LEGACY OF GHOSTS by Alicia Wanstall-Burke (Book Review)
Blood of Heirs, Alicia Wanstall-Burke’s debut, introduced us to two leading characters at opposite ends of a vividly drawn world. Though Lidan the southern princess and ... -
CHILDREN OF RUIN by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review)
In Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky delved deep into the alien familiarity of spiders, building – through accelerated evolution – a species wholly inhuman in its ... -
To the Moon and back with Dublin Worldcon
Every so often I find myself picking up an old classic in an impulse to broaden my education. So it was when I plucked H.G.Wells The ... -
DISPEL ILLUSION by Mark Lawrence (Book Review)
I was fortunate enough, having swiftly devoured One Word Kill and Limited Wish, to blag an early electronic copy of Dispel Illusion off the author. Though to ... -
PALE KINGS by Micah Yongo (Book Review)
In Pale Kings, Micah Yongo picks up from the cliffhanger ending to Lost Gods with Neythan and his miscellaneous collection of friends heading south in search ...
