Thank you for all your votes, which have been counted and verified. The juries are in place, and the egregious omissions have been decided upon. Here are the shortlists for the BFAs 2020! The juries will now take their time to deliberate, and make their final decisions. [...]
This year we received a healthy crop of entries with 104 eligible stories submitted for consideration. The judging panel have worked very hard over the summer to read all of [...]
10 DAYS OF FREEDOM by Maurice Powell The Book Guild Ltd p/b £6.89 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson This story possesses an intense descriptive power. The landscape in which [...]
The Stranger Times by C.K.McDonnell Bantam Press, hb, £11.55 Reviewed by Ann Mair The Stranger Times is a weekly newspaper, dedicated to reporting weird and inexplicable [...]
Wellington by Delilah S. Dawson, Aaron Mahnke, and Piotr Kowalski IDW, pb, £10.67 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming The Duke of Wellington is the most decorated military history in [...]
THE BROKEN HEAVENS by Kameron Hurley Angry Robot, p/b, £12.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Some trilogies or series can be joined at any point in the cycle, and they are [...]
Sea Change by Nancy Kress Tachyon Publications £15.95 Reviewed by Ian Hunter In just two years’ time, Caroline Denton’s world will change forever, as will the rest of [...]
THE LEGACY OF CRYSTAL ISLAND – BOOK TWO: TRUTH AND COURAGE by Colleen O’Flaherty-Hilder Matador p/b £9.99 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson It is always awkward to [...]
BATTLE GROUND By Jim Butcher Orbit Books, h/b, £20.00 Reviewed by Matthew Johns During a year, unlike any other, when we in the real world face an unusual enemy – the [...]
Girl of the Ashes by Hayleigh Barclay Garmoran, pb, £7.37 Reviewed by John C. Adams Garmoran Publishing features the tagline ‘Literature from the Scottish West [...]
Secrets of a Vanishing Country by Pelin Turgut PB, £6.99 Reviewed by Luke Frostick In a lonely mountain hotel somewhere in Anatolia, an insomniac woman goes unnoticed in the [...]
THE LOST WAR – EIDYN: BOOK ONE by Justin Lee Anderson King Lot Publishing p/b £12.99 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson The aftermath of war is much worse than the actual [...]
