Witchfinder General — book review
WITCHFINDER GENERAL by Ian Cooper. Auteur £9.99 Reviewed by Jim Steel Media studies publisher Auteur’s ‘Devil’s Advocates’ series is a new line [...]
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Reamde — book review
REAMDE by Neal Stephenson. Atlantic Books £18.99 Reviewed by Jim Steel Stephenson’s latest behemoth is set now. Richard Forthrast is a multimillionaire who has made [...]
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds. Book review
TERMINAL WORLD by Alastair Reynolds. Gollancz £8.99 Reviewed by Jim Steel Misleadingly labelled ‘steampunk’, Reynolds’ latest novel is more like the [...]
Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn. Book review
GUARDIANS OF PARADISE by Jaine Fenn. Orion £7.99 Reviewed by Jim Steel The third volume of Fenn’s Hidden Universe space opera series combines disparate elements of [...]
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #38
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #38, edited by the eponymous nine-month chair of the BFS, is now available in paperback and for free download in various ebook formats. It [...]
Zencore: Scriptus Innominatus (Nemonymous #7)
Review by Jim Steel Or Nemonymous #7, under another numbering system, and a welcome return to form after the frankly lightweight #6. This volume is a conventional paperback [...]
Charles Urban’s Brutal Spirits, “edited” by Gary McMahon
Review by Jim Steel This is the fourth chapbook in Swan River’s series of imaginary histories of real buildings. Gary McMahon has taken the multi-storey carpark in [...]
Alison, by Andrew Humphrey
Reviewed by Jim Steel The way we live now. We have our friends. We’ve known them long enough to know that they’ve got flaws, but they’re the only friends [...]
Polluto #2
Reviewed by Jim Steel This special apocalypse (and garden furniture) themed edition of the magazine is just packed with bad ideas. You remember Highlander, don’t you? [...]
Dark Horizons 54
Dark Horizons 54, about to be sent out to members in our March 2009 mailing, is filled to the brim with goodies… Our stories and poems range from the fantastical [...]