Stephen Palmer: Urbis Morpheos
Fungal dreams and nightmares. After finishing and really enjoying Palmer’s latest novel, Hairy London, I thought I’d give his previous book, Urbis M...
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Ian Sales: Then will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above
Ian Sales' Apollo Quartet is an award-winning sequence of alternate history novellas which explore different aspects of the twentieth-century space race.
Andy Weir: The Martian
The Martian is an odd book to review. I’m giving it three stars but it could be two or four, depending on what you want from a novel about an astronaut st...
Stephen Palmer: Hairy London
In an alternate Edwardian age, three upper class gents try to win a bet about the nature of love, while all around them everything goes to hair...
Paul McAuley: Confluence, in part
A word of caution for future readers of The Book of Confluence: it appears to be an easy read, but there will come a point, as with most of McAuley's work, wher...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory and Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold’s ‘Miles Vorkosigan’ series of novels used to fit into a long line of naval sagas quite neatly....
Ian McDonald: Kirinya
Sequel to Chaga - McDonald's post-colonial masterpiece.