Category Archives: Book Review
Blackheart Man: It has been a long time coming, but the new Nalo Hopkinson novel has finally arrived
The Folded Sky: The latest book in Elizabeth Bear's White Space universe has pirates, some intriguing aliens, and cats
The Ministry of Time: It is one of the most talked-about SF books of 2025, but is it any good?
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses: The new Pleiti and Mossa book is out, and Cheryl has pounced on it immediately
Immaculate Forms: Are men and women different, and how could we tell? Helen King takes a trip into the history of body-sexing.
Urban Fantasy: Stefan Ekman looks deeply into what Urban Fantasy fiction is all about
Testosterone Rex: Cheryl's trip to Hay reminded her of this blast from the past
Alien Clay: Adrian Tchaikovsky uses some decidedly weird biology to ask some very pertinent questions about human politics.
Tomb of Dragons: Celahar, Witness for the Dead (temporarily retired) returns in this new book. Can you guess from the title what sort of ghosts he ends up speaking to this time?
The Vengeance: Avast there me hearties, here be a new book by the fabulous Emma Newman. It be full of pirates (but they are French so they probably don't talk like this).
Rowany de Vere and a Fair Degree of Frost: Wait, is Cheryl reviewing a Crater School novel? How does that work?
Written on the Dark: A new Guy Gavriel Kay book is on the way. Does Cheryl love it? Of course she does.
Loka: S B Divya's follow-up to Meru is every bit as thoughtful as its predecessor
Future’s Edge: Gareth L Powell's latest novel is fast-paced and full of ideas
Mediaeval Women: Having been to the exhibition, Cheryl reviews the book of the exhibition
Navigational Entanglements: This novella from Aliette de Bodard is all about love between women, and so much more
The Tusks of Extinction: Ray Nayler brings the mammoth back from extinction, but this book is not just about people being chased by dangerous prehistoric animals.
The Many Selves of Katherine North: A review from a few years back that nicely compliments to Ray Nayler book
The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain: Sophia Samatar's novella is set in space, but is very much about the here and now
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins: In P Djèlí Clark's new fantasy world there are dead cats that are not cats and do not have tails
Mapping Middle Earth: From the Glasgow University Fantasy Centre comes a fascinating look at the maps of Tolkien's Legendarium
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest: In the forests of Estonia, after the collapse of civilisation, Lorraine Wilson's heroine is haunted by the ghosts of the internet
Triggernometry Finals: It is showdown time for Stark Holborn's desperado sumslingers. Have they met their equals at last?
Sundown in San Ojuela: Ghosts and an apparent werewolf haunt Southern California in M M Olivas's debut novel
The New Moon’s Arms: A look back at a classic piece of Caribbean fiction from Nalo Hopkinson
The Tapestry of Time: Kate Heartfield takes us back to occupied France in WWII for a tale of Nazi bashing and occult obsession
The Nightward: RSA Garcia's new series is a fascinating mash-up of many things
Welsh Giants, Ghosts and Goblins: Waterstones' Welsh Book of the Year is a collection of folk tales
The Moonlight Market: A charming tale of the war between the butterflies and the moths, fought out on the streets of London
The Knife and the Serpent: Tim Pratt is back with a new series. In this one a hapless student from Berkeley finds himself in the middle of a war for the multiverse, with the main protagonists being his girlfriend and his ex.
The Sheep Look Up: A reprint of Cheryl's review of the classic John Brunner novel of eco-catastrophe, first published in Emerald City #96
The Wood at Midwinter: Brilliance from Clarke as always, but possibly the shortest hardcover book Cheryl has ever read
Space Oddity: Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes are back in a new crazy caper. Rock 'n' Roll never read so good.
The Sunforge: Book two of Sascha Stronach's Endsong trilogy has arrived, and some of the mysteries from book one are explained.
Eyes of the Void: Adrian Tchaikovsky writes books faster than Cheryl can read them, but a dent has been made in the TBR pile.
Speculative Insight: Can you make a paying venue for SF&F non-fiction work? Alex Pierce is the latest to try.
Echo of Worlds: Mike Carey wraps up his war for the multiverse, in only two volumes.
Beyond the Light Horizon: Ken MacLeod's Lightspeed Trilogy reaches it's conclusion
Rose/House: Arkady Martine was a finalist for the Best Novella Hugo this year
Ghost Stories for Darwin: Can evolutionary biology be feminist? Banu Subramaniam thinks so.