Review of Market Forces by Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan is a British SF/fantasy author whose work is tight, thoughtful, and frequently violent. Market Forces, [...] 20 May, 2009
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Review of Broken Angels and Woken Furies
There's a rule of thumb I've read of, to the effect that in a novel the writer [...] 20 May, 2009
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Review of Modern Magic by Anne Cordwainer
Modern Magic is a novel made up of a series of interwoven short stories set in modern America. Together, the [...] 20 April, 2009
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Review of The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers
Set in a brave new world plagued with doubt, not too far from our own, Avery Cates struggles to be [...] 20 April, 2009
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Review of Black Oil by David Conyers
Africa is dying. Fresh water is scarce on a planet ravaged by pollution as amputee Joseph Nuwangi tests his luck [...] 15 April, 2009
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The Company of the Dead by David Kowalski
Sometimes - oh so rarely - a new writer enters the scene with a novel so strong [...] 22 February, 2009
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Avalon and The Matrix
Introduction
I will be exploring the idea that recent cinema seems obsessed with the paranoid [...] .. 22 February, 2009
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Dr Whom or ET Shoots and Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Parodication by A.R.R.R. Roberts
That full title is a mouthful, isn't it? And if the author's name looks familiar, well, it's [...] 22 February, 2009
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Blood Ties, Book One of The Castings Trilogy by Pamela Freeman
Pamela Freeman has established a name for herself as a children's author, though Blood Ties is her [...] 19 February, 2009
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Another review of Brasyl
It's 2006 and Marcelina Hoffman is trying to produce a television show about the most important football (soccer, for the [...] 08 December, 2008
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Review of Flood
As with much of the best science fiction, Flood is built upon a foundation of real science. Stephen Baxter [...] 08 December, 2008
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Review of Memoirs of a Master Forger
William Heaney. Do not buy a book from this man. Unless it's one he's written himself.
Memoirs of a [...] 30 September, 2008
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Review of City at the End of Time
Greg Bear's fiction tends towards the Big Idea. In City at the End of Time, the Big Idea is the [...] 12 August, 2008
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The Darkest Kiss (Book 6 of the Riley Jenson series)
There is a danger with an ongoing series that the magic of the earlier books will wear thin; the combination [...] 12 August, 2008
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Review of Infoquake
Infoquake is David Louis Edelman's debut novel, the first part of a trilogy revolving around the exploits of a singleminded [...] 12 August, 2008
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Review of House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds is a prolific craftsman of stories which are probably best described as a cross between hard SF [...] 18 June, 2008
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Review of The Steel Remains
Richard Morgan is best known as a writer of energetic, dark, thoughtfully violent near-future SF, typified by his explosive debut [...] 18 June, 2008
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Review of Teranesia
Greg Egan has established a reputation as a hard SF writer par excellence, capable of vertigo-inducing far-future extrapolations that skirt [...] 16 May, 2008
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Review of Black Man
Carl Marsalis is a twist, an unluck, a variant thirteen. Which is by way of saying that he's a ruthlessly [...] 16 May, 2008
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Review of SF Waxes Philosophical
SF Waxes Philosophical is a collection of fourteen short stories, slightly over half of them original to this volume, whose [...] 16 May, 2008
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Review of Dragon Harper
Just as I stopped reading Raymond Feist some years ago because of a decline in the storytelling (although I've been [...] 16 May, 2008
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Review of The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod is a Scottish SF writer whose work is apparently
characterised by an overtly political focus. I say 'apparently' [...] March 20, 2008
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Review of Cowboy Angels
Cowboy Angels is the latest offering from versatile British SF author Paul McAuley, whose previous books have explored interstellar exploration, [...] March 3, 2008
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Review of Fairyland
Fairyland, McAuley's sixth SF novel, was first published in 1995.
It's been reissued as one of Gollancz's eight 'Future [...] February 25, 2008
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Review of Pool
Wolfgang Mulqueen is a sixteen-year-old schoolboy in New Lourdes, Australia working a summer job at the miracle pool that has [...] February 20, 2008
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Review of The Opposite Of Life
There are a lot of supernatural dark fantasies about at the moment, so
for Pulp Fiction Press to take a [...] February 18 2008
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Review of Once Bitten, Twice Shy
I hate to say a book is "in the tradition" of anything, because
saying this can give a false impression [...] February 13, 2008
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Review of Revelation Space
There's a double layer of prediction implicit in the packaging of Gollancz's reissuing of eight recent SF works as 'Future [...] February 13, 2008
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Review of Halting State
Charles Stross is a British SF writer who appears to be rapidly accruing a reputation as someone to watch. His [...] February 13, 2008
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Review of Dreamsongs
This is an exceptional collection. To start with, my story average score
for the collection is 3.80, which is pretty [...] February 13, 2008
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Review of The Stupidest Angel
Christopher Moore's Stupidest Angel is subtitled 'A Heart-Warming Tale of Christmas Terror', and that's a reasonably apt description. If you [...] December 31 2007
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Review of Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon, Richard Morgan's first novel, is one of the eight books that Gollancz has chosen to re-issue under their [...] December 31 2007
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Review of Matter
Matter is the latest Culture novel by Scottish SF writer Iain M. Banks, who (under the pseudonym 'Iain Banks') also [...] December 30 2007
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Review of Pushing Ice
The prologue of this book starts in a far-flung, and almost ungraspable future that raises lots of questions for the [...] December 10 2007
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Review of The Immortal Prince
This review is hosted by The Specusphere. To read it (in a new window) Click [...] December 7 2007
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Review of Schild's Ladder
Greg Egan's Schild's Ladder is one of the eight recent SF
titles grouped into Gollancz's 'Future Classics' series. The
series [...] November 27 2007
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Review of Emissary
Fiona McIntosh is a gem and a credit to Australian speculative fiction.
To date she has given readers two fantasy [...] November 15 2007
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Review of Fluke
Christopher Moore is, it seems, looking to make a big splash on the humorous spec-fic scene this year. This is [...] November 14, 2007
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Review of Blood Music
Gollancz's 'Future Classics' series, of which 'Blood Music' is one volume, is (for now) a set of eight books presented [...] November 7, 2007
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Review of Ilario: The Lion's Eye
Ilario: The Lion's Eye is a character-based novel, so don't expect an
overarching plot to dominate. Instead, this book plays [...] October 15, 2007
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Review of Feast of Souls
The first of a new trilogy by Celia Friedman, Feast of Souls is a page-turner of the highest order. Despite [...] September 30, 2007
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Review of Passarola Rising
It's sometimes difficult to work out whether a book is suffering from post-modernism, magic realism or just plain bad copy-editing. [...] September 26, 2007
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Review of A Dirty Job
In A Dirty Job, we meet Charlie Asher, a self-proclaimed Beta Male and
fairly non-descript individual. The proprietor of a [...] September 26, 2007
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Review of Brasyl
I shouldn't (and shan't) judge the book by it, but I feel at least compelled to comment on it. Brasyl's [...] September 26, 2007
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Review of Light
Light is heavy; Light is dark.
M. John Harrison is a British writer whose works are variously categorised as either [...] August 28, 2007
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Review of The Prefect
Alastair Reynolds is a British-born, Netherlands-based astrophysics
researcher with the European Space Agency, and a hard-SF writer with a
rapidly [...] August 28, 2007
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Review of Nova Swing
Vic Serotonin describes himself as 'travel agent', a tour guide
into Saudade's forbidden Event Site, a section of the city [...] July 29, 2007
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Review of Harlequin & New Moon
It's not often that books keep me up til 1 am reading these days but I've
just hit two of [...] June 24, 2007
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Review of New Ceres
New Ceres is an innovative project initiated by Gillian Polack and Alisa Krasnostein, with the support of some of Australia's [...] June 10, 2007
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Review of The Darkness Within
The Darkness Within, the first novel from Brisbane journo Jason Nahrung (with inspiration from partner Mil Clayton), is a surprisingly [...] June 1, 2007
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Review of Sasha
I admit it. It was with trepidation that I approached this book. I read Joel Shepherd's first novel, Crossover, some [...] April 25, 2007
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Review of Dark Space
Reading a Marianne de Pierres novel is almost like immersing yourself in
a brilliantly detailed film - you find yourself engrossed [...] April 12, 2007
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