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Audio Review: The Cold Commands by Richard Morgan (2011)
It’s worth pointing out that an audio book gives a different feel to book, so really I’m reviewing Richard Morgan’s writing and Simon Vance’s performance of it, and it is a performance, Vance gives...
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Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris (2014)
There is something comforting about Charlaine Harris’s writing style and that bleeds through into her characters. My first exposure to Harris was her Sookie Stackhouse short stories from A Touch of...
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Midnight Crossroad Blog Tour: Charlaine Harris Answers Three Questions
I’m very pleased to be the MIDNIGHT stop on Charlaine Harris’s Midnight Crossing Blog Tour: Why do you think the clock ticking midnight is such a magical event? That’s not my fantasy. I think the...
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Review: Skin Game by Jim Butcher (2014)
If you thought The Dresden Files was starting to lose its way then reading Skin Game will prove you wrong. Harry Dresden’s latest case is a tough one: he has to break into the highest security vault...
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Review: The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas (2013)
In Commissaire Adamsberg Fred Vargas has created one of my favourite detectives. There is something about his unorthodox methods and his obsessions which makes him endearing. It helps that Vargas has...
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Review: The Crimson Campaign by Brian McCellan (2014)
Just to get this out of the way, Brian is a client of mine and I’ve been typesetting/ebooking the novellas and short stories he’s written in the same Powder Mage universe so this review has some...
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SFM Review: Slow River by Nicola Griffith (1995)
I can’t shake the impression I have that science fiction is going to be dry (or that fantasy is going to be some pseudo-medieval Royalty with magic). I know better. I’ve read so many books that aren’t...
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Review: Speedy Death by Gladys Mitchell (1929)
Alastair Bing’s guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. When the other guests...
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Review: Elric: Fortress of the Pearl by Michael Moorcock (1989)
According to its original publication The Fortress of the Pearl is 8th in The Elric Saga but The Michael Moorcock Collection and Wikiedia places it chronologically second, after Elric of Melniboné...
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SFR: Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls by Rachel Pollack
Rachel Pollack presents a shamanic noir 14,447 word novelette and introduces us to the Traveller and private eye Jack Shade, who also appears in a more recent tale ‘The Queen of Eyes’ and at least one...
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Anne Rice Answers Three Questions
I’m so excited to be able to bring you this quick interview with the extraordinary Anne Rice. Queen of the Damned is one of my favourite ever novels and reading that Lestat has further adventures to...
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Audiobook Review: Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
Where do you go after the literally shocking ending of Broken Homes. PC Peter Grant, Britain’s only official apprentice Wizard, had been investigated events at architecturally curious high-rise estate...
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Looking Backwards and Forwards
I want to say I didn’t read really enough last year but in reality I read as much as I could fit in, which is all I can ask of myself. — Gav Reads (@gavreads) January 4, 2015 Happy New Year everyone. I...
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Wonderings: Re-Reading
I’ve been dipping into the collected Tor.com essays of Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great and wondering why I don’t re-read more. When I had limited choice I used to do it quite a lot. In fact...
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An Interview With Neal Asher (Dark Intelligence)
You may not know but I’m a huge fan of Neal Asher’s work especially this Polity Universe. So mush so his publisher in the UK, Tor, invited me to write an introduction to it. I wrote 1200 words and...
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#bookadayuk The Originators are Back for February 2015
You need to get over to Twitter and look at the #bookadayuk hastag because if nothing else it’ll prove how much reading makes teenage life easier to cope with. And I’ve put up a pic or two of my...
View Article2014 Locus Recommended Reading List
This Recommended Reading List, published in Locus Magazine’s February 2015 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers: — Liza Groen Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan, Faren Miller,...
View ArticleAwards: The Kitschies 2014 Finalists
The Kitschies reward the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic. Now in our sixth year, we are proud to be sponsored by Fallen...
View ArticleThank You Terry Pratchett, RIP
Last Thursday I saw a tweet which confused and worried me: TERRY PRATCHETT NO NO NO NONONONONONONMONONONOFXGNABzdrgtfawzrdg \CWRGTQWSHETHDB — Words From Darran (@ShinraAlpha) March 12, 2015 And then I...
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Review: The Three by Sarah Lotz
I finished reading The Three the same day as the horrendous air-crash in Germany, and seeing the events unfold on TV. Because of the intensity of Sarah Lotz’s horror thriller I had emotional connection...
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