The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu
Victoria Hooper
The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible.…
Reviews
Work Done For Hire by Joe Haldeman
Overlord
For those who are unfamiliar with Joe Haldeman, let me start by telling you that the man is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the genre of Science-Fiction.…
The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Steff Humm
Never mind variety, anticipation is the true spice of life and is something Peter V. Brett really knows how to inspire. We waited with baited breath for the third instalment…
Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell
Hierath
The attack macaque is back! Fresh (well, ish) from saving the world from nuclear meltdown in Ack-Ack Macaque, our titular monkey is having a bit of a meltdown of his…
Shadow of the Colossus – Video Game Review
Juan de Dios Dougnac
Thanks to Sony’s marvelous PSN Plus service, I recently got the chance to play Shadow of the Colossus, one of the great classics of the Playstation 2 era that, in…
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Mike Shackle
Welcome back to Low Town and the world of the Warden, a disgraced secret police enforcer turned drug dealer. It’s not a place for the faint-hearted but for anyone who…
Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams
Alister Davison
Happy Hour in Hell sees angel Doloriel–AKA Bobby Dollar–make a welcome return, following on from his adventures in The Dirty Streets of Heaven. If you haven’t already pounded those pavements…
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
KJ Braxton
Are you ready for adventure, magic and drug fuelled dragons? Come sit down with Kvothe and get consumed in his world. The blurb alone is enough to convince anyone to…
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol (Translated by Michael Biggins)
Aleksandra Kesek
‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’ – The Supreme Ismaili Motto Alamut is an impenetrable fortress which houses a small Ismaili army ruled by the enigmatic Hasan ibn Sabbah. He…
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Zachary A. Matzo
Editor’s Note: This review contains minor spoilers for the entire Low Town trilogy. If you search for “define warden” on Google, you’ll get the following: a person responsible for the…
The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
M. M. Beresford
The Wild Girls is a Nebula award-winning novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, republished in 2011. It follows the story of two girls kidnapped and sold into slavery as children,…
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Because this is the first review of Red Country (that I’m aware of) and we’ve been given the exclusive trailer, which you can see above – this review is a…