Book Reviews
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The Martian (Book and Film Review)
As a six-year-old primary school pupil in 1970 I remember the strange assembly where the headmaster led us all, as a school, in praying for the ... -
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Book Review)
Late last year, I finally got around to reading Mary Robinette Kowal’s novelette, The Lady Astronaut of Mars. I instantly fell in love with Elma and ... -
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (Book Review)
Warning: this review may contain spoilers! What do you say about a book like The Raven Tower? It comes with a lot of hype, the first ... -
Master of Sorrows by Justin Call (Book Review)
The Good: Destiny and dark magic, a fresh take on time-honoured tropes, a world brimming with history, belief and ideals, action sequences that dare to be ... -
Frontera by Lewis Shiner (Book Review)
“’Kane, man, this is not a myth. This is happening. Real Russians, real lasers, real corpses, real soon.’ “’But what if the other was real, too? ... -
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky (Book Review)
I’ve just finished The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky and I’m a bit blown away. It starts as a very tight and intimate ... -
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (Book Review)
I had been looking forward to cracking open this novella since I happened across an ARC at BristolCon last year (talk about striking gold!). I discovered ... -
Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock (Book Review)
Where Oblivion Lives takes us once more into Frohock’s world of Los Nefilim – a fantasy creation overlaid on historical reality as intrinsically and indivisibly as ... -
A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (Book Review)
The Good: A fresh take on what the ‘end of the world’ looks like, a story that is as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking, strikingly simple ... -
Kings of Paradise by Richard Nell (Book Review)
Warning: this review may contain spoilers! Oh, goodness, this book. I’m going to say a few things about it, but lest this get lost in the ...
