Last Winter Sun by G R Matthews
T. O. Munro
The heady mix of familiar southern England locations, memories of our own time and technology and an influx of strange magic make Last Winter Sun an enjoyable mix of the…
dystopia
Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar – SPFBO #7 Finals Review
Jennie Ivins
* Disclaimer * Everyone is different and likes and dislikes different things. Reading is no exception. One person’s all-time favorite might seem too bland or too high stakes for another.…
Anna by Sammy H.K. Smith
Geoff Matthews
The Government has fallen, society is broken, and to survive in the land you need to be intelligent, cunning, and tough. Above that though, you need to be watchful. The…
Dark River by Rym Kechacha
Jonathan Thornton
It’s hard not to feel that the road is a kind of scar across the land, and the forest is like the new pink tissue forming beneath the old wound,…
Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett
Rakib Ahmad Khan
Robert Jackson Bennett is one of the authors whose writing, I eagerly look forward to whenever something new is announced. I was a bit skeptical about this title though, as…
Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
Pippa
Originally written in Chinese and published in 2013, this edition of Waste Tide is translated by Ken Liu and published by Tor Books. It is also Chen Qiufan’s debut book.…
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Book Review
Jessica Juby
Set in the near future, society has become something different; there’s a new hierarchy at play. The government has fallen and life has fractured as a result of pollution and…
Ada Palmer Interview – Seven Surrenders
Ada Palmer is the winner of this year’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her debut novel Too Like The Lightning, first in the Terra Ignota sequence, was…
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Book Review
Eric Christensen
When I kicked off the Fantastic Literature column, I mentioned that Hulu was producing a series based on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. And that television show has helped spur…
Urskuul’s Reading Circle: The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
Dan Sutcliffe
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first two books in the Bone Season series: The Bone Season and The Mime Order. Please read with caution if you have…
The Seven by Peter Newman
Seven is a magical number. Indeed, a 2014 survey found that seven is the world’s favourite number. Perhaps that is why the world of film and books has known so…
The Hammer and The Goat / The Vagrant and The City by Peter Newman
Covers count. Every author knows this. Covers can make you buy books, they pose questions, raise mysteries – draw in the eye and the imagination. It is rare, however, for…