News for 2012
Voting is now open for the SFBook Book of the year 2012 with nominations listed from each book that became "book of the month" during 2012.
It has been an incredible year with some really outstanding novels being launched, a big congrats goes to each author who made the poll.
Listed below are the 12 finalists, you can vote for you favourite by either clicking the big image on the right, or by following the link here.
The...
The final book of the month for 2012 goes to Lavie Tidhar's award winning novel Osama.
Fighting of tough competition from the likes of Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie and James Smythe Osama is a triumph of literature that deserves to be a part of everyone's...
On the very day we review the quite breath-taking novel Osama news comes in that the author Lavie Tidhar wins the World Fantasy Award for that very same book.
Fighting off competition from some of the biggest heavy-weights in fiction including George R R Martin and Stephen King, it's fantastic to see the novel receive some of the credit it deserves.
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it?s called life
The winners of the Locus Awards for 2012 were announced over the weekend over in Seattle at the Locus Awards Weekend.
The Winners include China Miéville for Embassytown, George R.R. Martin for A Dance with Dragons and Neil Gaiman for his short story “The Case of Death and Honey”.
You can see full coverage of the event in the...
The winners of the 3 David Gemmell Awards were announced over the weekend, presented in a ceremony held at London’s Magic Circle headquarters.
Patrick Rothfuss wins the Legend Award for "best novel" with The Wiseman's Fear. Helen Lowe gets the Morningstar award for "best debut" with Heir of Night and the Black Library artist...
This months book of the month goes to Mike Shevdon's urban fantasy novel Strangeness and Charm, the third in the Courts of the Feyre series.
The previous book in the series went on to win the SFBook of the Year as voted for by the readers of this site and Strangeness and Charm is...
Just found this short video on the internet, an episode of Night Gallery, an American TV series which was somewhat like The Twilight Zone and penned by the same writer - Rod Sterling. It ran from 1970 to 1973 but I've never seen it appear on British TV.
Professor Peabody's Last Lecture was part of the second series and starred Carl Reiner as the arrogant professor. If you are a fan of Cthulhu or HP Lovecraft you should find it highly...
Seen as though spring has firmly made it's presence known, what with all the April showers and things, we thought it only right at SFBook that we give the site a bit of a face-lift.
We hope everyone like it, as ever any issues or things that are broken (like that would happen) then please do let us...
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it?s called life
Any fan of Doctor who and heavy metal music should check out this video, which features the signature tune along with "I am the Doctor".
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One of the big issues with speculative fiction novels I see when I write book reviews is the disparity in the quality, seemingly more than many other form of literature science fiction and it's brother fantasy seem to be an area with a massive range in the ability of the authors. This appears to be...
I've been writing online book reviews for a number of years now (and yes that is my TBR pile on the left) and thought it would be a good idea to provide a tiny insight into the knowledge and experience i've gained so far. Hopefully this will be a good starting point for anyone who wishes to begin...
There are so many books coming out in this digital age that even some of the bigger titles can get missed by the avid reader. As such I thought it might be an idea to run a semi-regular item about the most promising books I've seen coming out over the next few months or so. For ease I've grouped these books by release date, if you know of one I've missed or would like to see included then let me know.
May 2012
This months choice for book of the month is by the highly talented author Keith Blackmore.
His powerful voice combined with a real talent to spin a story filled with larger than life characters is nothing short of astounding and the self published novel Mountain Man embodies everything that...
6th April is of course Good Friday but thanks to Anarchy books it looks set to be a very good Friday indeed!
Not only are they releasing 7 new novels but for a limited time only they are giving away the excellent anthology Vivisepulture for free!
The new releases include:
New York Blues by Eric Brown
Hal Halliday runs a missing...
ANDY REMIC WANTS YOUR MONEY!
BEN NEVIS ROCKS - Saturday 25th August 2012
Author ANDY REMIC (The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, Theme Planet, Toxicity, War Machine, Kell’s Legend, Soul Stealers, Biohell, Spiral, Quake, Warhead, Serial Killers Inc., etc) will be joining awesome singer/musician MIKE PETERS (The Alarm, Big Country) and lots of other walkers and climbers on an ascent of Ben Nevis on Saturday 25th August 2012 in...
Another bumper month of reviews has again made it very difficult to decide on just one winner. The level of quality is getting seriously high with novels such as Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig, Autumn - The City by David Moody, Legion of the Damned by Rob Sanders, Hell Train by Christopher...
Today is World Book Day 2012 and this year not only is it possible for every child up to 18 years old to receive a free book token but over half a million around the world will take part in the first online children's book festival.
The festival is called "The Biggest Show on Earth" and is aimed to...
This months book of the month was one of the most difficult choices in recent memory, there has been such a strong start to the year that it's been almost impossible to pick just one out....
Well ok not really, but I do have the next best thing and that's a guest blog by the real actual author of Spartacus: Swords & Ashes - J.M. Clements. SPOLIARIUM Author J.M. Clements on his novel Spartacus: Swords & Ashes Starz were playing their cards very close to their chests about events in the Spartacus: Vengeance TV series. You...
Christmas was a bit of a revelation for me as far as book buying goes and I thought it would be worth sharing my recent thoughts on that sometime contentious subject of ebook versus paper book.
I have had a Kindle for a little over a year now and I do really like the device, not only is the screen really easy to read but...
This years book of the year was again very closely contested competition (although people have behaved a lot better this time around) and each of the 12 finalists are quite deserving of the title.
In the end though there can only be one winner and the SFBook Book of the year award 2011 goes to...
Son...
This months book of the month, the first of 2012, goes to Hylton H Smith's The Ice Wars of Dominia, a fitting conclusion to the excellent Evilution series.
Congratulations to Hylton, the first Entry into the book of the year...
SFBook would like to wish a very Happy New Year to all our visitors and personally thank each and every one for visiting the site over the last 12 months.
SFBook has enjoyed considerable success in 2011, over the year the site has attracted over 370 000 unique visitors who have looked at almost 1.7 million...
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