CLUBHOUSE: Review: “The Light Between Stars” edited by Catherine Fitzsimmons
Catherine’s experience as a publisher offers a role model in terms of what it takes to make the commitment.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer
Our second review of Sawyer’s latest; well worth two reviews, well worth the read.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Speculative North Magazine #1
A new Canadian SF magazine hits the stands!
CLUBHOUSE: Review “Small Rain and Other Nightmares,” by Paula Johanson
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. SMALL RAIN and Other Nightmares – by Paula Johanson Publisher: Doublejoy Books, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2020. Cover Art Design: by Lila Klassen. Note: All stories by Paula Johanson. Small Rain Premise: End of the world, basically. How do you survive? Review: A young […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “And The Angels Sang” collection by Lorina Stephens
Really good science fiction and fantasy, in other words. Well worth reading. Masterful writing.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: On Spec Magazine issue #113
The latest issue of OnSpec magazine
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Pulp Literature Magazine issue #26
If you’re like me, a voracious reader with eclectic yet widespread tastes, you’ll read it from cover to cover and be well satisfied.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Pulp Science Fiction from the Rock, an anthology from Newfoundland.
“ … the editorial team identified some of the tropes that are typical in pulp: macho stereotypes, a damsel in distress, low-art. The goal of this collection is to subvert those stereotypes ….”
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Unnerving Magazine issue #12
I have to admit, Unnerving always surprises me. I never know what to expect.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Santiago’s Purple Skies at Morning’s Light, a supernatural fantasy by Bernadette Gabay Dyer.
A newly-orphaned young lady from small-town Ontario winds up coming of age on a Caribbean island that, like her, is haunted by legends of its past.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: A God in Chains, a fantasy adventure by Matthew Hughes
Let A God in Chains pull you in – The further into it you get, the deeper you are drawn into the quest, the greater your desire to find out what happens next.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Why I Hunt Flying Saucers, a collection of stories by Hugh A.D. Spencer
This collection’s definition of “flying saucer” is “a sort of imaginative short-hand to represent things that are unexplained, uncomfortable, usually inappropriate and generally weird.”
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Nothing Without Us, a genre anthology about disability.
Every story is about a disabled or handicapped individual. Every story is written by a disabled or handicapped individual. This is a window on a world most people know little or nothing about, presented in the form of genre-related fiction
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Trouble Among The Stars Magazine #5
A niche magazine, heading for its final issue.
CLUBHOUSE: Fungi, an anthology of Lovecraftian terror.
When it comes to saprophytes, we are ALL Egon (“I collect spores, molds and fungus”)
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “Wasps at the Speed of Sound” anthology by Derryl Murphy
You’d be amazed how many people would enjoy seeing the world they’ve learned to hate get smashed.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Casserole Diplomacy, an On Spec Magazine 25th Anniversary Anthology
On Spec celebrates 25 years with this anthology offering
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Imps & Minions, a fantasy anthology.
Reviewing the Canadian contributions to this large anthology
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “North by 2000+” an anthology by Henry A. Hargreaves
A very Canadian anthology of hard SF dipped in cabin fever.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: The Defender of Rebel Falls, a novel by Erik Christensen
A medieval fantasy seen through a science fiction lens
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Cycling to Asylum, a novel by Su J. Sokol
In a digital age, your past can and will come back to haunt you.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Pulp Literature Magazine #25, Winter 2020
Once you’ve read the story you may well conclude it is a tad tabloidy and nowhere near the essential sanity and dignity of an actor’s private life. Wrong!
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Unnerving Magazine issue #11
The combination of explicit sex and explicit violence practically knocked me off my chair. I was stunned.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: augur Magazine Issue #6 Vol.2 #3
With six issues under its belt augur is switching to paying full SFWA rates, apparently the only SpeciFic zine in Canada to do so.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Lackington’s Magazine issue #20, Fall 2019.
A bird theme for this anniversary issues presents some interesting complications for the reviewer.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: On Spec Magazine issue #112
Capsule reviews of the latest issue of On Spec magazine
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Neo-opsis Magazine #30
A review of Neo-Opsis magazine issue 30.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Anathema Magazine #8
Issue number 8 of Anathema – an online tri-annual speculative fiction magazine of work by “queer POC / Indigenous / Aboriginal creators”
CLUBHOUSE: Review: Pulp Literature Magazine issue 24, Autumn 2019
Lots and lots of good and varied stuff to peruse in this issue. You can’t go wrong if you pick it up.
CLUBHOUSE: Review: The War Beneath: The Rise of Oceania, a techno-thriller by Timothy S. Johnston
Twenty-nine underwater cities dot the world’s continental coastal shelves, along with hundreds of deep-sea mining and research facilities. Ten million people live beneath the sea
