Author: T.O. Munro
-
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 ... -
THE DENIAL by Ross Clark THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
So I return to my neglected Unseen Academic feature, with what is (honestly) going to be a book review, honestly, but first some climate change context. ... -
CURRENT RESEARCH IN SPECULATIVE FICTION (CRSF) 30th June to 1st July – Conference Report by T.O.Munro
Delegates hailing from France, Spain and Italy joined UK based delegates and online participants from as far afield as California, Dehli and Australia at CRSF’s first ... -
LEGACY OF THE BRIGHTWASH by Krystle Matar (SPFBO 7 Finalist Review)
And so we come to our final review of SPFBO7 and indeed in SPFBO. And the question is, has Legacy of the Brightwash done well enough ... -
THE MORTAL BLADE by Christopher Mitchell (SPFBO 7 Finalist Review)
Just two more to go, and here is our penultimate finalist review of SPFBO 7 The Mortal Blade by Christopher Mitchell A city ruled by Gods, ... -
REIGN AND RUIN by J.D.Evans (SPFBO 7 FINALIST REVIEW)
And so we enter the final week of SPFBO 7 with the Hive Judges’ third favourite book of this final month. Reign & Ruin by J.D.Evans ... -
THE IRON CROWN by L.L.Macrae (SPFBO 7 Finalist Review)
And so we come to the end of our second week of final month SPFBO finalist reviews, with the last of the those finalists to miss ...