Learning How to Drown – Cat Hellisen New Con Press 185 pages Review by Samantha Dolan Learning How to Drown is an arresting title. On the front cover, Hellisen is described as one of the most accomplished writers of African SFF’ by Geoff Ryman and that might provide an insight for some but it
Fifty-One Chris Barnham Filles Vertes Publishing 320 pages Review: Georgina Merry From the near future to the blitz, Barnham’s time travel escapade is a smooth blend of romance, espionage, and intrigue. If you want hard sci-fi, this isn’t the book to choose. However, if you love mystery, conspiracies, and vintage settings, look no further.
Body in the Woods Sarah Lotz NewCon Press, 116 pages. Review by Ian Hunter A couple of years ago I was a juror on the panel that chose the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. As one of the contenders was Sarah Lotz’s novel The Three, it was a bit of a no-brainer. That
Binary System Eric Brown Solaris, 400 pages Review by Lucy Powell An amalgamation of two short novellas, Binary and System, Eric Brown’s Binary System is a novel that quite literally starts with a bang. After the spaceship Andromeda catastrophically explodes going through a routine wormhole jump, the accident is enough to fling the book’s
Null States Malka Older Tor, 432 pages Review by Callum McSorley Malka Older returns to the world of The Centenal Cycle with her second book in the series, Null States. In her debut, Infomocracy, she introduced us to a near-future in which ‘Information’ – a near-ubiquitous, utopian version of the internet where all statements
Spare and Found Parts Sarah Maria Griffin Titan, 416 pages Review: Georgina Merry In a post-apocalyptic Ireland where computer technology is banned, Nell Crane, a teen who struggles to fit in, becomes obsessed with building herself a companion. She will stop at nothing to make her fantasy a reality, even if it means rejecting the
You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts John Harrison Comma, 272 pags Review: Katy Lennon This collection is clearly the work of a veteran of the short story; yet Harrison’s 15 year break from the format obviously did not dull his aptitude or enthusiasm for it. Published by Comma Press, known genre fans
Seven Surrenders and The Will to Battle (Books 2 and 3 of Terra Ignota) Ada Palmer Head of Zeus, 368 & 352 pages Review by Eris Young Terra Ignota is the story of a collapsing world. The quadrilogy, books two and three of which were released in the UK late last year, takes
A Scruffian Survival Guide Hal Duncan Lule, 118 pages Reviewed by Steve Ironside Language is a marvel. The formality of words and structure, the ends to which it can be put – poetry, technical description, the odd bawdy chat down the pub; allowing communication in ways both broad and narrow. And yet, it remains
Rights of Use by Shannon Eichorn 339 pages Review by Samara Wright In the 1960s, Project Blue Book promised the American public that UFOs were not real. Aliens did not exist. We were safe from extraterrestrial threats. Thirty years later, two high schoolers, Sarah Anderson and Maggie Rockefeller, along with seventeen other women