SAMANTHA SHANNON The Bone Season. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
The Bone Season offers a parallel future of clairvoyants and alien races in a complex and vibrant thriller. This is a very grim story threaded with startlingly good...
Read MoreTERRY PRATCHETT and STEPHEN BAXTER The Long War. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Humans, trolls, bad governments and parallel worlds: Pratchett and Baxter offer a rich cast of characters and provocative ideas in their latest novel. There is so much...
Read MoreMAX BARRY Lexicon. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson
This is fiction on the edge of the now – a contemporary thriller that moves backwards and forwards in time. Wil Parke prays it’s a case of mistaken identity when he’s...
Read MoreEMMA NEWMAN Any Other Name: Book Two of The Split Worlds. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Mirrored worlds of urban and traditional fantasy meet in this richly intriguing and inventive series. In all good fantasy it is the edges and borders that throw up the...
Read MoreM JOHN HARRISON Light: Book One of the Kefahuchi Tract. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson
Hallucinatory, worldly and entertaining science fiction with a lot to say about the human condition. Michael Kearny is a particle physicist working on developing...
Read MoreDUNCAN LAY Valley of Shields: Empire of Bones Two. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
This fast-paced epic fantasy has plenty of Machiavellian twists and poses some deeper questions. Book Two of Duncan Lay’s Empire of Bones trilogy opens with an...
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