Category Archives: Book Review

 

  • Infinity Gate: Mike Carey starts a new duology on the biggest canvas possible, the multiverse

  • When Women Were Dragons: Are you a woman? Are you angry about men? Would you like to turn into a dragon and burn a few of them to a crisp? Well why not just do it?

  • Hel’s Eight: Stark Holborn returns to the moon, Factus, for some more desperate frontier adventure, Space Western style.

  • The Terraformers: Some classic political science fiction from Annalee Newitz

  • The Cleaving: In which Juliet McKenna takes on the Arthurian legend

  • Descendant Machine: The new novel from Gareth L Powell does exactly what it says on the tin.

  • Celtic Wales: A small but expertly written book explores what we really know about the iron age inhabitants of Wales.

  • Beyond the Reach of Earth: The new Ken MacLeod triology reaches book two.

  • On Savage Shores: From the 15th century onwards, hundreds of native Americans crossed the Atlantic to Europe. Who were they, and what did they make of us? Caroline Dodds Pennock investigates.

  • The Roamers: Francesco Verso's new novel sets the next stage of human evolution in Rome

  • The Grey King: Book four of The Dark is Rising takes Will Stanton to North Wales

  • Space Crone: A collection of Le Guin's writing on feminism and gender? What's not to like?

  • The Mimicking of Known Successes: A very big world in a quite small book

  • Meru: Oh look, actual, serious science fiction!

  • Rhapsody of Blood: Revelations: The fifth and final volume of the Rhapsody of Blood series is almost here. Cheryl has an advance copy.

  • Venus & Aphrodite: The goddess of love and lust has a surprisingly long career

  • Greenwitch: Cheryl has reached book #3 of The Dark is Rising

  • The Ballad of Perilous Graves: New Orleans: come for the food and the jazz, stay for the ghosts and zombies

  • Hopeland: The new Ian McDonald novel is one that Cheryl can't review

  • The Dark is Rising: Cheryl continues her reading of the Susan Cooper classics

  • The Fortunate Fall: A favourite novel from the past will soon be with us again

  • The Cavalry Maiden: Trans people not only existed 200 years ago, some of them fought in the major wars of the time.

  • The Spear Cuts Through Water: The second novel from Simon Jimenez is very different to the first, but equally fascinating

  • The Keeper’s Six: A masterclass in novella writing from Kate Elliott

  • Queens of the Wild: A deep dive into theories of pagan survival, with the inimitable Ronald Hutton

  • The Grief of Stones: Thara Celehar, Witness for the Dead, has a new murder to solve

  • Over Sea, Under Stone: Cheryl embarks on a read of The Dark is Rising Sequence

  • Fault Tolerance: In which Eva Innocente finally gets to save the universe. More fun space opera from Valerie Valdes.

  • Bloodmarked: The second volume of Tracy Deonn's imaginative re-working of Arthurian myth has finally arrived.

  • The Red Scholar’s Wake: Lesbian pirates, in Spaaaaaace! Aliette de Bodard's latest.

  • Inventing Memory: In memory of Anne Harris, a book review from Emerald City #105

  • Beyond the Northlands: What can the Norse Sagas tells us about actual Norse history. According to Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, quite a lot.

  • Ogres: A very clever novella from Adrian Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • Nona the Ninth: Oh goodness, what has Tamsyn Muir done now?

  • Into the Riverlands: Cleric Cheh returns for another beautifully written Nghi Vo novella

  • The Moonday Letters: Emmi Itäranta's latest novel connects a space-faring future to the deep past

  • When Demons Die: Justina Robson returns to the world of the Quantum Gravity series

  • A Half-Built Garden: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthana Emrys is a novel with many different sources of interest

  • The Bruising of Qilwa: A novella that is both science fiction and fantasy from an exciting new talent

  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: Silvia Moreno-Garcia breathes new life into a classic concept