Author: T.O. Munro
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SIXTEEN WAYS TO DEFEND A WALLED CITY by K. J. Parker (Book Review)
I leapt at this book with an enthusiasm born of an engineering background, an appreciation of historical sieges, a love of fantasy and a yearning for ... -
DARK RIVER by Rym Kechacha (Book Review)
I’ve been keen to read Rym Kechacha’s debut novel “Dark River” from the moment I heard about its central premise, twin timelines set 8000 years apart ... -
SORCERY REBORN by Steve McHugh (Book Review)
I came to this book, the start in a new Rebellion series by Steve McHugh, having read just the first of the previous twelve books that ... -
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 ...
