The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez
Dan Hanks
The Daedalus Incident is one of those books that for many will be hard to pin down. A not-so-simple tale of adventure on the high seas of…well, nothing…it initially pops…
alternate history
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Nicholas Schmiedicker
A Natural History of Dragons is exactly what it sounds like. A memoir written by a Victorian naturalist who has an obsession with dragons and embarks on an adventure to…
Ack-Ack Macaque by Gareth L. Powell
Alister Davison
Let’s start with the blurb. In 1944, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed ‘Ack-Ack Macaque’. The trouble is, Ack-Ack is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey,…
Sharps by K. J. Parker
Overlord
I’d heard a lot about K. J. Parker (mostly from my friends/fellow bloggers Justin and Jared), before I picked up my first dose of the author’s work in the form…
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
Paul Wiseall
What is the greatest evil in modern history? Because it might not be the Nazis… We all know that the Nazis were monsters (and I did a history degree so…
Historically Accurate
Laura Graham
Writers who set their stories in the future? Those guys have got it easy; they can see everything happening in the world around us, and use that to inform their…
Irenicon by Aiden Harte
In the world that Irenicon is set, just after Jesus Christ was born, he was murdered. Torn from the arms of his mother, Mary, Jesus was killed by King Herod…