SCI-FI & FANTASY BOOK REVIEWER… …and struggling writer.

Archive for November 2008

eBooks on your iPhone

Publishers Pan Macmillan and Lexcycle, the maker of the highest rated electronic book reader for the iPhone, today announce the availability of the first set of Pan Macmillan titles for Lexcycle’s popular Stanza electronic book reader for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Stanza users will have access to free excerpts from selected best [...]

Charles Stross - Book Signing

Highly regarded science fiction and fantasy author CHARLES STROSS will be signing copies of his new novel, THE CLAN CORPORATE, the latest installment in the Merchant Princes series, at Waterstone’s West End, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh on Thursday 11th December at 6.00pm
Don’t forget, Christmas is coming and a signed book always makes a lovely [...]

Neal Asher Book Signings

One of Tor’s most highly regarded sci-fi authors, Neal Asher, will be signing copies of his new collection, The Gabble - And Other Stories, at everyone’s favourite London megastore, Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR on Thursday 27th November, from 6.00pm-7.00pm (http://www.forbiddenplanet.com) and at Waterstone’s, Culver Square, Colchester, CO1 1JQ on Saturday 22nd [...]

Book Review - The Steel Remains

By Richard Morgan
In the years following a bitter war against a lizard race, Ringil Eskiath, a renowned warrior and hero of the war, is living a quiet life of drunken debauchery, telling tales of derring-do to locals for a few coins to pay for room and board. Into his humdrum life returns his mother, [...]