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Stephen Baxter And Alastair Reynolds - The Medusa Chronicles

December 28, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Bloody terrible. This novel is intended as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, extending his classic tale A Meeting With Medusa . But it combines...

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

December 27, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Ahead of Philip Pullman releasing the companion books to the His Dark Materials trilogy I've been re-reading the original novels, ones ...

Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife

December 26, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

The Subtle Knife is where Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy moves from a slightly foreboding children's fantasy to a truly d...

Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass

December 25, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

The first two books of the Dark Materials trilogy are great novels. But really they simply are setting the scene for the brilliant climax th...

Becky Chambers - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet

December 23, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Various reviewers have described The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet as a "joy" or "delightful". It is certainly ente...

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Hard To Be A God

December 21, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

This is a really clever and original piece of science fiction that could only have been written by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ...

Connie Willis - To Say Nothing Of The Dog

December 19, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

In Connie Willis' future world, time travel is possible, but it isn't profitable so corporations have abandoned it, and instead time...

Lavie Tidhar - Central Station

December 19, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Somewhere about a third of the way through Lavie Tidhar's Central Station I realised that I had been missing a crucial aspect to the no...

Peter Watts - Blindsight

December 18, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

I'll admit to making a mistake with Blindsight . I bought it thinking it would be a 'hard' science fiction of first contact with...

Kim Stanley Robinson - New York 2140

December 17, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

What will life be like for people when global warming has melted the ice caps and climate change has transformed the world's environment...

Peter Watts - Echopraxia

December 16, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Despite enjoying the first volume of this short series by Peter Watts, I found Echopraxia to be utterly incomprehensible. The story follows...

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children Of Time

December 15, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

This is an unusual and sometimes strange novel. It follows two attempts by humanity to colonise and terraform far distant worlds. The firs...

Jeannette Ng - Under The Pendulum Sun

December 15, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

What would happen if Victorian England, in all its colonial glory, discovered fairy land? This is the intriguing basis for Jeannette Ng...

Rivers Solomon - An Unkindness Of Ghosts

December 14, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

***Contains Spoilers*** It is rare to find a genuinely original science fiction novel, but Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts ...

Cixin Liu - The Wandering Earth

December 14, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Cixin Liu has produced some of the most innovative and entertaining, as well as thought provoking science fiction that I've read in th...

James S. A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes

December 11, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

It's always dangerous diving into a novel that is part of an established series, particularly one like the Expanse universe which has ...

James S.A. Corey - Caliban's War

December 10, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Volume two of James S.A. Corey's Expanse series continues almost where the first book left off. It maintains the fast pace of its pred...

John Christopher - The Death Of Grass

December 09, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

John Christopher's The Death of Grass is a remarkable ecological disaster novel first published in 1956. It's particularly surpri...

Josiah Bancroft - Senlin Ascends

December 08, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

I really liked the beginning of this unusual fantasy novel. Newly wed teacher Thomas Senlin arrives at the Tower of Babel with his wife fo...

Guy Gavriel Kay - Children Of Earth And Sky

December 07, 2017 Add Comment SF and F Edit

Having picked up Children of Earth and Sky on a whim in the library, I was extremely taken by Guy Gavriel Kay's writing. This sweepin...

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