Tom Pollock Interview
Max Edwards
Tom Pollock’s debut YA urban fantasy novel, The City’s Son, was released in 2012 to much acclaim. With the newest addition to his Skyscraper Throne series due out tomorrow in…
Max Edwards
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
The universe’s mysteries are innumerable, unknowable and perhaps inconceivable, but science fiction takes a hold and shakes them out into the written word. Clarke brings them into our collective consciousness…
Layers of Reality
As an English Undergraduate at a UK university, I often feel an obscene sense of guilt and embarrassment when asked what, specifically, I enjoy reading. When I respond with “science…
Why is SF not considered literary?
Disclaimer: A quick point to make before I begin: the ‘SF’ in the title refers to ‘Speculative Fiction’ and not ‘Science Fiction’, and thus incorporates Fantasy within it. Science Fiction,…
Embassytown by China Miéville
My goodness gracious me is there a lot to get through your poor little brain in this book. From the great literary mind of China Miéville, comes this romp through…
Sci-Fri
Sci-Fri is a new series of Friday articles on science fiction, primarily by myself, Max Edwards, with other contributors occasionally. What has science fiction got to do with fantasy? Well…
Feed by Mira Grant
It’s somewhat appropriate to write a blog post about Mira Grant’s Feed, seeing as its concerned not only with zombies, but blogging too. Here one comes and all – an…
Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson – Series Overview
Why, Mr. Sanderson, why? I loved the first two Mistborn books by Brandon Sanderson. I recommended them even. Book one, Final Empire, was an excellent tale of orphan –> saviour,…