News for May 2015

Gollancz Paperback of the month for May 2015 is Adam Roberts exceptional story of artificial Intelligence, Bête — which we reviewed last October. Roberts is a writer who seems to improve with each book he writes and Bête is quite simply stunning. It's set sometime in the near future and explores our relationship with the natural world and how that is changing with the steady march of technological progress. Witty and clever, it was one of...

This years Arthur C Clarke award had an impressive shortlist — Dave Hutchinson's incredible vision of a fractured future Europe In Autumn, Claire North's time travel escapade The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August, M.R. Carey's haunting thriller The Girl with all the gifts. Michel Faber's science fiction Christianity voyage Book of strange new...

For those of you that don't know, I've been pretty involved in the community around Elite: Dangerous the computer game since its successful Kickstarter at the end of 2012 . I wrote one of the official novels, reviewed here by Ant on SFBook and I help run the podcast Lave Radio, that's been following the...