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FOUL DAYS by Genoveva Dimova (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters Volume 1)
Bulgarian/Balkan myth comes alive (or undead) in Foul Days by Genovena Dimova, which is the first part of her Witch’s Compendium of Monsters...
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THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS by Sarah Brooks
I have always fancied travelling on one of those luxury train journeys. Stepping into the footsteps left by explorer Michael Palin (or perhaps less...
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2023 Nebula Awards winners announced
The Nebula Awards ® for 2023, presented on June 8th 2024, have been announced. These results are as follows: 2023 Nebula Awards® Best Novel...
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The Saga of a Collection – or how it took me 44 years of trying, to finally get what I wanted.
So: here’s a story about how it took me 44 years to finally get a story collection. Quick background for context. It is 1980. I was 16. By this...
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SEEKER by Samuel Griffin
Historical fiction readers, if I said “Regency novel” to you, what comes to your mind? Elegant dresses, lavish house parties, coffee house...
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER – THE ART OF THE MOVIE By Matthew K. Manning
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fourth, following Iron Man 2, which I...
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IN OUR STARS by Jack Campbell
In the year 2180, Lieutenant Selene Genji of the Unified Fleet sees Earth destroyed, despite the Unified Fleet’s attempt to stop it. The resultant...
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THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley
Time travel is one of the most– if not the most – science-fictional tropes of all time. Thanks mainly to good ol’ H. G. Wells, the idea of...
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THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE by James Logan (The Last Legacy, Book 1)
One part caper, one part sword and sorcery adventure, one part murder mystery, The Silverblood Promise is the debut novel from James Logan and the...
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EXTINCTION by Douglas Preston
It’s been 34 years since the novel Jurassic Park was published. Many movies and sequel novels later, Douglas Preston writes a great blockbuster...
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NEWS: 2024 Philip K Dick Award winner announced
The winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award, given for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United...
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NEWS: BSFA Award Winners Announced
The 2024 BSFA Award winners (for material published in 2023) have been announced at Eastercon. The awards were voted on by members of BSFA and the...
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NEWS: 2024 Hugo Award Nominees announced
From the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon team: The 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award nominees have been announced. The awards...
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60 at 60: Hobbit’s Update
Hello everyone! So, in 2014 I was 50. To celebrate that, of a sort, I made up a list of 50 books/series that were important to my genre reading,...
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THE ART OF IRON MAN 2
Imagine that we’re back to 2010. The huge success of the movie Iron Man in 2008, with over $500 million made means that Marvel has decides to...
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GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner (Book One of The Fallen Gods Trilogy)
When a novel begins with the death of an entire family at the hands of a god, that sets the tone for a novel. Especially when Kissen, the...
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AN EDUCATION IN MALICE by S T Gibson
From the publisher: “Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place...
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THE TAINTED CUP by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, 1)
Robert Jackson Bennett has been blurring the genre lines since his first novels published a little over a decade ago (Mr. Shivers, 2010; The...
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SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2023 (part 4)
Here’s the final part of our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. This time, it’s Film & TV. (Part...
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SFFWorld Review of the Year – 2023 (part 2)
Here’s our now traditional Review of the Year, pointing out what we liked most. This time, it’s: Part 2: Horror Books (Part 1 looked at...
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THE DARKNESS BEFORE THEM by Matthew Ward (The Soulfire Saga #1)
Matthew Ward’s The Darkness Before Them kicks off The Soulfire Saga and tells the tale of Kat, a young woman who turns to thievery because her...
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THE CROW FOLK by Mark Stay
Fantasy and Horror readers are usually pretty broad-minded folk. It’s a given that sometimes you need to suspend your sense of disbelief whilst...
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THE DRAGONS of DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu (The Book of the Holt, Part One)
Bradley P. Beaulieu is growing into a modern Epic Fantasy master. He’s completed the requisite fantasy trilogy (The Lays of Anuskaya) and created a...
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DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP by Satoshi Yagisawa
Books about books and bookshops are pretty much a winner for me. I am actually a little wary though – what if such a book lets me down and (gasp)...
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THE KINGDOM OF SWEETS by Erika Johansen
As I write this, we are approaching Christmas, a time for some of traditions – presents, pantomimes and ballet performances, for example. The...