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  1. Anthony G Williams

    Fantasy The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

    The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd An interesting contemporary fantasy published in 2022. To quote the blurb: "Some places you won't find on any maps, others, only on maps. Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr. David Young, was one of the most respected...
  2. Anthony G Williams

    Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear

    Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear Greg Bear (1951- 2022) was a well-known SF writer who concentrated mainly on classic science-focused SF. However, early on in his career, he wrote two novels in the fantasy genre which are very different: The Infinity Concerto (1984) and its sequel The...
  3. Anthony G Williams

    The Professor Challenger Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Professor Challenger Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is of course most famous for inventing the private detective Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures are described in four novels and 56 short stories, published between 1891 and 1927. He also wrote a wide range of...
  4. Anthony G Williams

    Star King and The Blue World by Jack Vance

    Star King and The Blue World by Jack Vance Jack Vance (1916-2013) hardly needs any introduction to fans of classic SF, having produced a substantial body of work between about 1950 and 2004. While some of Vance's work is famous (The Hugo Award-winning The Dragon Masters and The Languages of...
  5. Anthony G Williams

    Sci-Fi The Jupiter Theft by Donald Moffitt

    The Jupiter Theft by Donald Moffitt Yet another book I had forgotten (along with its author, whose name rang no bells), this being published in 1977. Moffitt (1931-2014), wrote only a handful of SF novels, but a larger body of shorter fiction as well as adult spy thrillers. To start with...
  6. Anthony G Williams

    Educational Science Museum SF exhibition and book

    Science Museum SF exhibition and book Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination Edited by Glyn Morgan The Science Museum in Kensington, London is currently hosting an exhibition likely to intrigue any SF fan. Titled Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination, it "uncovers...
  7. Anthony G Williams

    Sci-Fi Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books by Mike Ashley

    Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books by Mike Ashley This is another publication in the British Library's Science Fiction Classics series (for which thanks are due for sending the review copy). Unlike most of the others in the series, this is not an...
  8. Anthony G Williams

    Sci-Fi The Sky Lords trilogy by John Brosnan

    The Sky Lords trilogy by John Brosnan On browsing through the dustier corners of my book stacks recently I came across an unfamiliar book by an unfamiliar author: The Sky Lords, by John Brosnan, which was published in 1988. I initially assumed that I had read it, but I could not recall anything...
  9. Anthony G Williams

    Educational The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens - and Ourselves, by Dr Arik Kershenbaum

    The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens - and Ourselves, by Dr Arik Kershenbaum I don't usually review non-fiction books, but this one is a very relevant exception. The author is a zoologist used to applying Darwin's theory of evolution to the development...
  10. Anthony G Williams

    Fantasy A Tapestry of Magics, by Brian Daley

    A Tapestry of Magics, by Brian Daley Having recently enjoyed and reviewed Brian Daley's Coramonde books, I decided to re-read the only other book by this author on my shelves, A Tapestry of Magics. Daley creates an intriguing world (or more accurately, universe) centred on the Singularity, also...
  11. Anthony G Williams

    Fantasy The Untold Story, by Genevieve Cogman; and Risen, by Benedict Jacka

    The Untold Story, by Genevieve Cogman; and Risen, by Benedict Jacka The Untold Story, by Genevieve Cogman; and Risen, by Benedict Jacka Two of the very best fantasy series of modern times have both come to an end with publication of the last of Cogman's eight-volume Invisible Library stories...
  12. Anthony G Williams

    Sci-Fi The Fresco, by Sheri Tepper

    The Fresco, by Sheri Tepper This is set in the present day (well, 2000 when first published) and concerns the first contact by aliens, who choose an ordinary middle-aged American woman as their one and only official contact. The story is mainly about the impact this has on her life, but in...
  13. Anthony G Williams

    Fantasy To Here and the Easel, by Theodore Sturgeon

    To Here and the Easel, by Theodore Sturgeon The US author Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) was a significant fantasy, SF and horror writer and critic, most active in the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote 11 novels (including the award-winning More than Human), 120+ short stories, around 400 reviews and...
  14. Anthony G Williams

    Fantasy Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

    Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Two newly published fantasy novels this month, very different in content and style. Piranesi is by Susanna Clarke, the internationally acclaimed author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. A very strange tale, in the form of the...
  15. Anthony G Williams

    The Coramonde books by Brian Daley

    The Coramonde books by Brian Daley Brian Daley (1947-1996) was a US SFF writer who co-authored much of his output with James Luceno (the pair using the Jack McKinney pseudonym), specialising in novelisations of TV series, e.g. Robotech. He did write some original fiction by himself, of which...
  16. Anthony G Williams

    Sci-Fi The Chronicles of St Mary's, by Jodi Taylor

    The Chronicles of St Mary's, by Jodi Taylor A few posts ago I reviewed Another Time, Another Place, the twelfth and latest volume of The Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor. I enjoyed that so much that I promptly purchased the first eleven books, and have now read all of them. First, a...
  17. Anthony G Williams

    The Alien Stars and other novellas by Tim Pratt, and If Then by Matthew De Abaitua

    The Alien Stars and other novellas by Tim Pratt, and If Then by Matthew De Abaitua The Alien Stars and other novellas, by Tim Pratt This book is part of the Axiom series, reviewed here a couple of months ago. It consists of three novellas: The Augmented Stars, The Artificial Stars, and The...
  18. Anthony G Williams

    The Grid, by Nick Cook; and The Institute, by Stephen King

    The Grid, by Nick Cook; and The Institute, by Stephen King The Grid has some things in common with King's The Institute, reviewed below. Both are set in the present day and concern conspiracies making use of psychic powers to alter government policy. Both books are also simply classified as...
  19. Anthony G Williams

    Future Crimes: Mysteries and Detection through Time and Space, edited by Mike Ashley

    Future Crimes: Mysteries and Detection through Time and Space, edited by Mike Ashley This latest British Library Science Fiction Classics anthology sent to me for review combines my favourite genres, as I read almost as many detective stories as I do science fiction or fantasy. The Editor's...
  20. Missions

    Sci-Fi Missions

    Title: Missions Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2017-06-01 Creator: Julien Lacombe, Henri Debeurme, Ami Cohen Overview: The first manned mission to Mars is now approaching the red planet. The crew includes top-flight scientists and a young female psychiatrist, responsible for...
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