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

Archive for February 2009

Best Served Cold

I’ve been waiting for this for a long time, ever since I turned the last page on Joe Abercrombie’s excellent The First Law trilogy in fact, so I have to admit that the joy of opening the post and seeing it there was followed by shameless whooping and hollering as I held it aloft and [...]

Hope #1

Hope is a new multi-part fanzine raising money for bushfire relief in the Australian state of Victoria. It is edited by Grant Watson with contributions donated by writers, artists and fans in Australia and from overseas. It is supported by the Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF), and has received assistance from the [...]

Hater

The buzz around David Moody’s ‘Hater’ is big and with good cause. Having successfully self-published the ‘Autumn’ series of post-apocalyptic zombie novels he then launched ‘Hater’, the film rights to which were picked up by Guillermo Del Toro and, at time of writing, it is in pre-production with Juan Antonio Bayona of ‘The Orphanage’ [...]

Dragonfly Falling

Empire In Black And Gold, book one of the Shadows Of The Apt series, was an impressive and memorable debut and one of my favourite fantasy reads of last year and so I set about this, the second book, with great excitement and it doesn’t disappoint.
We pick up the story just about where we left [...]

The Secret War

I’ve got several piles of books around the house. There’s the pile of absolute, definite must reads - it’s a short pile because whatever is on it tends to get devoured pretty quickly - then there’s the ‘never-in-a-million-years’ pile of books that, for one reason or another, I’ll never read but will inevitably donate [...]

Interview - Fantasy Author, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of celebrated fantasy series, ‘Shadows Of The Apt’, took a break from promoting his latest book, ‘Dragonfly Falling’, to talk to me about this epic fantasy series.
Adrian Tchaikovsky Interview

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