Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Published Date: 2006 Author: Ray Bradbury Read By: Robert Fass ISBN: 0-7927-4519-1 Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury is the sequel, or maybe just the completion, […]
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication date: 01/10/2012 ISBN: 9781451673319 Pages: 159 Author: Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was originally published in 1953, but it speaks volumes to the world today. I originally […]
Publisher : Victor Gollancz Ltd (1976) Copyright: Arthur C. Clarke (1956) ISBN-10 : 0575001593 Author : Arthur C. Clarke The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke […]
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation are the three books that make up the original Isaac Asimov sci fi classic Foundation Trilogy. These books were originally published as a series of short stories in […]
Author : Nnedi Okorafor Publisher : TORDOTCOM (01/19/2021) Language : English Paperback : 160 pages ISBN-13 : 9781250772800 Remote Control By Nnedi Okorafor is a beautiful little book. […]
Publisher: Harperaudio ISBN: 9780062314345 Binding: Compact Disc Published: 10/15/2013 Language: English Edition: Unabridged Author: Kurt Vonnegut Narrator: Stanley Tucci Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut is a strange story. It is almost not a […]
This week Steve delves into the interesting genre of Fantasy Westerns. This particular book involves creatures of darkness and a gunslinger named Melinda who never misses. Did he like it? Read it and see.
Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Chengdu Worldcon 2023, the 81st World Science […]
Best of British Science Fiction 2021, Donna Scott, ed. (NewCon Press 978-1-91495-324-8, £26.99, 368pp, hc) August 2022. Cover by Ian Whates. Donna Scott has edited the Best of British Science Fiction for NewCon Press since […]
John Scalzi is the winner of the 2023 Robert A. Heinlein Award, given for “outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.” Winners are chosen by a committee […]
The judges for the 2023 World Fantasy Awards have been empaneled. The judges will read and consider eligible materials from 2022 between now and June 1, 2023. To be considered for awards, all materials must […]
Stephen King’s got novel number 60 out. Steve F takes a look at it. Is it garbage, word slaw, Pulitzer-worthy, or what? See what Steve thinks.
Steve prepares for a Vancouver visit from Annalee Newitz, whose latest book Autonomous, is reviewed here. He’ll be there, will you?
Xaghra’s Revenge is a well-written, time-travelling historical fantasy. Highly recommended!
Amusing at times, shocking at others, a touching and somehow wonderful SFF read.
Many who enjoyed the thriller-type TV series of the seventies and eighties, plus Stephen King’s wonderful novel Needful Things, will enjoy the collection of tales called Marvelry’s Curiosity Shop.
The Alchemist is an excellent example of the true magic that happens when literary fiction and genre fiction work together.
Reviewer John Dodds loved Steel Sky, which reads like Alexandre Dumas crossed with Isaac Asimov.
The Genesis Fleet: Vanguard is not a perfect story, but as another entry into the Gearyverse, it’s still an enjoyable read.
If you like weird, absurd, meta fiction, then check out King of the Worlds, but if that isn’t your cup of tea…
If zombie fiction is your cup of entrails, Mutation, the first novel in Nerys Wheatley’s Twenty-Five Percent trilogy provides an action packed thrill ride with some interesting new twists.
101 Stumbles in the March of History is an entertaining volume of essays on what the world would have looked like if certain historical mistakes had not happened.
In her new book Breath of Earth, Beth Cato finds a way to create an entertaining alternate history centred on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Golems, Kabbalists and NAZI Germany collide in The Book of Esther
Napoleon Bonaparte once famously said “history is a set of lies agreed upon;”
Bombs Away by Harry Turtledove was a good, if flawed, book. That being said, how does its sequel, Fallout, hold up to the original? Our story continues (and maybe skip the next two paragraphs if you haven’t read […]
…our characters find alcoholic children, rampant inflation, polygamy, universal gun ownership and a bandit who steals everyone’s fine linens.
I was happy to get a chance to read The House of Daniel, a fantasy story about baseball set during the Great Depression.
Some might argue I am spoiling The Last Pilot, but it is important to talk about this because Johncock’s description of what parents go through when they lose a child is very realistic.
The Ear, The Eye and The Arm combines traditional African culture with science fiction technology
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