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A few thoughts on the end-of-days premise: whether it’s zombies or disease or a natural disaster, authors create these situations to produce an immediate external conflict. One that can divide or unite, one that tests and may change their characters. Authors' purposes for writing in this type of speculative fiction are as varied as the... Continue Reading →
‘Happiness is rebellion, but it will not win the war.’ On the night of the initiation ceremony into her clan, eighteen-year-old Amani is abducted from her family to become a political decoy for the princess of the regime that has conquered her family’s world. Body doubles are used to sample food and take bullets, to... Continue Reading →
The provenance of a book is not a new premise in literature, but Ian McDonald’s novella Time Was takes it in a wholly new and fascinating direction. Emmett is niche bookseller specializing in books of the Second World War. At the closing of a famous book store in London, he finds a slim book of... Continue Reading →
I can be very difficult when it comes to fantasy. As my finger reached to click open Foundryside on my Kindle, I asked myself: Ok, Mr. Bennett, what ya got for me? World building: Tevanne is a port city run by four walled-off estates or merchant houses. I kept picturing some cross between Dunwall in... Continue Reading →
Adam Christopher returns to Tinseltown and his quirky memory-addled robot detective/hit man Raymond Electromatic in his third book of the LA Trilogy, I Only Killed Him Once. A new case has Ray going after a G-man, a man in black, an expressionless lawman… and once the deed is done, the memory lingers in the robot’s... Continue Reading →
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