I received a free copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review. This in no way impacts my opinions. I’ve always had a thing for dystopian fiction, and near future efforts in particular. When this one popped up on Netgalley, I jumped at the chance. And it was a good one. Cloud is a massive fictional online retailer which […]
I received a free copy of the audiobook from the author in return for an honest review. This in no way impacts my opinions. In the future, humankind has reached the stars. A malfunctioning ship forced its occupants to land on a planet, where they’ve been stuck ever since, hoping to find the right materials to get back to their […]
A Doctor Who book, written by my favourite Doctor, Tom Baker. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong? The answer? Not a lot, really. When the Doctor, shrewd Sarah Jane Smith and abbable but daft Harry Sullivan show up on a remote island somewhere off the coast of Great Britain (it’s never quite clear where), they think it’s for a well-earned […]
I received a free copy from Netgalley in return for an honest review. My opinions have in now way been compromised. Sally Janes is the titular last astronaut. Having led a failed attempt to land on Mars, she has lived with the shame ever since. But when her old boss, Roy McAllister, offers an olive branch to lead a crew […]
I received a free copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review. This in no way impacts my opinions. The gods have fallen from the skies, and taken up residence in Lagos, where they sometimes make a nuisance of themselves. This is where David comes in. David is a demigod, and uses his enhanced abilities to take out […]
I better mention before I write this review, that I got a free unedited copy directly from the author, but this in no way influenced my opinion of the book. Cho5en is a superhero tale, part of a world told in a bunch of episodes, the first of which you can download for free if you wish to give it […]
Netgalley chucked a copy of this my way, and I am, as ever, grateful for their ARCs. I’ve never read any Blake Crouch, but I did watch Wayward Pines on TV, and liked the cvut of its gib. Figuring I was going to get more of the same, I happily dove into the novel. I was right. What starts out […]
What a title. I mean, who would not want to read a book with a title like that? The story sounds good. Teagan has psychokinesis, meaning she can indeed move shit with her mind. Working as an “operative” for the US government, Teagan and her equally sketchy team take on jobs that require a particular skill set – Teagan’s skill […]
Like many of you (I guess), I decided to read this book after the author had died. The book was written forty-odd years ago, and it definitely looks an epic fantasy from the 70s or 80s. Take that as you will, but there is some stuff to like for you modern GRRM types. Here’s a random rundown of my thoughts […]
John Wyndham writes terrific sci-fi, usually based in the future, but the characters and ideals are set very much in the Britain he grew up in. This set contains two such tales. The Chrysalids is set in a post-apocalyptic (well, post-Rapture) English town where anyone who deviates from the norm is considered to be different and therefore evil – like […]
