The always interesting Book Slut has a really good article about reading comic strips in newspapers, something that too many people do not have the pleasure of doing. On my paperround, I used to read the Hagar strips one of the red tops and when I was in Israel with my dad, I read the [...]
Hunter’s Moon is perhaps one of the most appalling books that I have read this year and the real annoyance was that I had been looking forward to it. I have a sweet spot for the anti-hero magician type wandering around the place, like John Constantine and Mike Carey’s Felix Castor novels but this came [...]
I’ve just read Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman which is an interesting read. In the future, death has pretty much been banished but what replaces it?
Whilst travelling through space, Jacob, a virtual reality engineer, is involved with an emergent AI which effects its presence through the scenarios of the twentieth century. In the philosophical discussions [...]
Oxford University Press are not a publisher that one expects in the sf field (apart from the fine fantasy and sf anthologies) but the recently published Brave New Words is an odd book. Its a dictionary of science fiction terms with their derivations put together by an ex-Locus editor with an introduction by Gene Wolfe.
It [...]
Solaris have published the Infinity Plus anthology, a bind up of the two PS publishing collections, and its another gem.
I’m not going to go into detail in to each story as it has been a while since I read them but this a worthwhile snapshot of some great writers from Stephen Baxter and Michael Moorcock [...]