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... Read More
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 ... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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 ... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More