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

Archive for January 2010

W.E.

In Book Reviews, Science Fiction on 31 January 2010 tagged book, John Dickinson, novel, review, sci-fi, science fiction, W.E., World Ear, YA, young adult with 1 comment

W.E. is that rarest of sci-fi novels, a very simple premise masking a deeply complex and multi-layered narrative that is utterly compelling from the first word to the last.
Paul Munro wakes up, post-op, after being prepared for the eight year journey to a distant moon to join the small team manning a base there. [...]

The Final Empire

In Book Reviews, Fantasy on 31 January 2010 tagged book, Brandon Sanderson, Fantasy novel, Mistborn, review, The Final Empire, writer with no comments

I’ve known about Brandon Sanderson for some time now through the ‘Writing Excuses’ podcast he presents alongside Howard Taylor and Dan Wells but I’ve not had the chance to read any of his work till now. Others may know him from the work he has done finishing Robert Jordan’s ‘Wheel Of Time’ series, I’ve [...]

Tome Of The Undergates

In Book Reviews, Fantasy on 7 January 2010 tagged author, book, debut, fantasy, novel, review, Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates with no comments

You have to feel just slightly sorry for Sam Sykes. He’s only 25 and yet Tome of the Undergates has been hailed as the biggest fantasy debut of 2010 and, as it comes from the Gollancz stable, he follows in the footsteps of writers like Joe Abercrombie, Pat Rothfuss, Scott Lynch and Tom Lloyd, [...]