by NRB | 28 Aug 2014 | SFF |
A grimoire, ancient magic – and cage fighting. This novel romps through it all. Warning! Wizards are no longer weedy, spectacle-wearing dorks with wimpy scars on their heads waving sticks and reciting pig Latin. In the world of Bound, the first in the Alex Caine...
by NRB | 14 Aug 2014 | SFF |
This police-procedural urban fantasy is a celebration of contemporary and mythological London. Broken Homes is the fourth in the wonderful Rivers of London series. Rivers of London, Music of Soho, and Whispers Underground are the first three. It would be possible,...
by NRB | 29 Jul 2014 | SFF |
This unsettling new work incorporates echoes from previous books and forces readers to ask what they want from a novel. I’ve read a few books by Christopher Priest now, and I have to confess that often I don’t really understand what is going on in them; but still I...
by NRB | 17 Jul 2014 | SFF |
The pseudonymous Claire North poses an esoteric and intellectual challenge in this historically based and convoluted time-travel story. Born as a kalachakra, or ouroboran, Harry August belongs to a unique group of individuals to whom the usual laws of birth, life...
by NRB | 8 Jul 2014 | SFF |
This debut weaves a prodigious tapestry around its drowned world; the result is an example of the best of contemporary Australian fantasy writing. The city of Caeli-Amur was born out of the imagination of Australian writer Rjurik Davidson in 2005 with his Ditmar...
by NRB | 3 Jun 2014 | SFF |
Through cruelty to transcendence: the third book of this powerful series delivers both. This final instalment of the Children of the Black Sun trilogy opens with three damaged mages – Rasten, Sierra and Isidro – reeling in the aftermath of the events of Book Two,...
by NRB | 22 May 2014 | SFF |
This future world takes the ethical dilemmas and tendencies of our own time on some scary trajectories. In the earth of the far future, a world of 20 billion inhabitants who are living under domes and experiencing a life controlled by the World Union, Peter Lazarus is...
by NRB | 6 May 2014 | SFF |
Sci-fi, crime, the supernatural and a savvy female ranger – Marianne de Pierres mixes them all in this first instalment of a new series. In the future Australia of Peacemaker we seem to be managing. There have been ructions, wars and incidents due to water shortages,...
by NRB | 8 Apr 2014 | SFF |
From Chaos to Asgard: in this novel by the author of Chocolat the notorious Scandinavian trickster, Loki, gets a chance to tell his story. The tales of the Norse pantheon must float near the top of the reservoir of myth, so many writers and artists have made use of...
by NRB | 27 Feb 2014 | SFF |
An intricate and well-plotted narrative, full of incident, ends the Empire of Bones trilogy with a flourish. In this final book, the complex developments of the first two books in the Empire of Bones series are brought to the point of an epic battle. Wall of Spears...
by NRB | 13 Feb 2014 | SFF |
Immersive, layered and compelling: this standout science fiction debut rewards persistence. Ancillary Justice, the debut novel from American author Ann Leckie, has been garnering a fair bit of buzz around the speculative fiction community over the past few months and...
by NRB | 28 Jan 2014 | SFF |
This new novel is an exuberant celebration of the endlessly changing Discworld. In Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett’s 40th book set on the Discworld, Ankh-Morpork, the most exciting and vibrant – but grubby – city on the Disc, is nearly a decade older than when we last...
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