by NRB | 15 Aug 2024 | Fiction, SFF |
The team that is James SA Corey – author of The Expanse – delivers the first instalment of an epic new science fiction series. Lovers of good science fiction will be aware of the name James SA Corey. It is the pen name of Ty Frank and Daniel Abraham who, as a pair,...
by NRB | 10 Oct 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
The award-winning author of Terra Nullius returns with an ambitious new novel melding speculative fiction, war and history. The Old Lie is probably the most satisfying novel I will enjoy this year. The title is from Wilfred Owen’s World War I poem ‘Dulce et Decorum...
by NRB | 12 Jun 2018 | SFF |
Revenant Gun delivers a deeply humanistic tale that furthers the concerns of the previous two volumes without being repetitive. Yoon Ha Lee wraps up his stunning Machineries of Empire trilogy with all of the style of the first two volumes. Both the eye-opening Ninefox...
by NRB | 27 Nov 2014 | SFF |
A mission to discover a new planet is sabotaged in this debut SF full of plot twists and wonder. There are two main schools of space opera today: military SF, where some version of the US marines arrives on the scene, kills everybody, and lets God sort out the good...
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