Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Science Fiction Awards Watch blog has just posted news of the Locus Awards winners. Congratulations to all!
Nicolette Jones interviewed Patrick Ness for the Independent yesterday, Friday 24th June. I’ve yet to read Monsters and Men, or the other books in the series though they are now high on the list. What impressed me about it is … Continue reading
A gray Metropolis – Robert Jackson Bennett’s Company Men
Robert Jackson Bennett‘s The Company Men plunges the reader into the rapidly thickening world of Evesden, an American city dominated by the McNaughton factory. It follows Mr Shivers, Bennett’s debut novel which is set in the 1930s Dust Bowl, in … Continue reading
A danse macabre at the carnival
Jesse Bullington‘s books are unafraid of the ordure. In fact they revel in it in both setting and language. He takes the ideas of medieval fantasy to a logical yet rigorous extreme. Meanwhile he is embraces both Jeff Vandermeer and … Continue reading