Autumn - The City
by David Moody
Autumn - The City is the follow up to the sensational zombie novel Autumn, promising the same power and subtle horror of the first.
It takes a lot of guts to start a story again right from the beginning but told from a different perspective - a brave move that could have gone horribly wrong. Instead the author has managed to improve over the already impressive Autumn with less time spent on the actual changes the undead go through, resulting in a much faster pace and sleeker na...
Blackbirds
by Chuck Wendig
Blackbirds follows the life of Miriam Black who has a singular gift (or curse) that means each time she touches someone she knows when and how they will die - vividly reliving their final moments.
Still in her early twenties she's seen sights most people couldn't even imagine along with countless heart attacks, strokes, suicides, car crashes and that slow death by the big C.
When she hitches a ride with the big trucker Louis Darling and shakes his hand she sees t...
Blue Remembered Earth
by Alastair Reynolds
There are very few authors alive today that can quite match Alastair Reynolds vision of future space and Blue Remembered Earth is the beginning of possibly his most ambitious future vision yet. At the same time it's also one that also feels much closer to home than any novel he has written before. The story is set one hundred and fifty years in the future, a future where wars, global warming and other crises have allowed Africa to emerge as the dominant technological and economic super-power....
Spirit's Destiny
by Ken Dawson
Spirit's Destiny follows the path of one Ella Bland, who having just finished a degree is looking forward to living on earth (a right for attending 4 years of university).
The very last thing she ever expected was to become embroiled in an ancient, bloody and quite secret war between a genocidal artificial construct hell-bent on destroying the human race and a deeply shrouded organisation that will do anything to prevent mankind's annihilation.
As the violence es...
Vivisepulture
by Andy Remic
Vivisepulture is an ebook collection of weird tales from some seriously talented authors, edited by the singular Andy Remic. (According to the online dictionary Vivisepulture is the act of burying someone alive by the way and you get some odd articles looking that one up on Google I can tell you!).
It has been dedicated to the late author Colin Harvey who was tragically taken away before his time back in August 2011. The book features short stories from authors including Neal A...
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle is my first foray into the world of Kurt Vonnegut, I have heard his name mentioned over the years but for one reason or another I have never actually picked up one of his novels. My youngest brother recommended his works (specifically siting Slaughterhouse five) and I have been picking up a few of his novels since. As Cat's Cradle is part of the SF Masterworks list (I have a sort of self imposed desire to read all the works in the list) I decided to start my Vonnegut journey ther...
Zombies: A Compendium
by Otto Penzler
Brains, Brains, BRAINS!, you just have to love those lurching, decaying animated corpses. The living dead make a great enemy and here we have wall-to-wall flesh eating monsters, ghouls and things that go bite in the night, brought to (un)life by some of the best horror and fantasy writers in the world.
A companion volume to the incredible collection of The weird, it's a book that is vast in scope and gargantuan in size - The Worlds ...
Floating Worlds
by Cecelia Holland
The only science fiction novel that the immensely talented Cecelia Holland has written, Floating Worlds is taking it's rightful place within the halls of Gollancz SF Masterworks collection.
The novel tells the story of humanity 2000 years in the future where capitalism has been overthrown and anarchy reins supreme as not only a legitimate political ideology but actually practiced throughout the world. Having Colonised some of the planets in the ...
In the Mouth of the Whale
by Paul J McAuley
I first read one of Paul J McAuley's novels over 20 years ago, picked up completely at random for reason's that are shrouded in the midst of time. The book was Secret Harmonies and it became one of the most memorable novel's I have read before or since, managing to evoke a powerful feeling of travel around a truly alien planet.
Since then I have picked up a few more of his books when I have seen them but restrictions on my time have meant that...
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
Storm Front is the first novel introducing the wizard P.I. Harry Dresden to the world, a gritty urban fantasy that manages to captivate right from the start.
We join Harry as he's going through a bit of a slow patch and so when the Chicago PD asks for help with a double homicide he jumps at the chance to earn some cash. At the same time he's also asked to trace a missing person and finds himself having to investigate both cases at once.
I loved how the author has...
