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The Visitors by Owen W Knight from @BurtonMayers #BookReview #SciFi #Conspiracy

30/01/2023

The front cover for The Visitors by Owen W Knight. A circular spaceship is coming out of the clouds above a pyramid.

The Visitors by Owen W Knight Burton Mayers, pb, £7.20 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Fourteen years ago, Peter and his sister Emily saved the world from destruction through a [...]

Burrowed by Mary Baader Kaley from @angryrobotbooks #BookReview #SciFi #Dystopian

16/01/2023

The front cover for Burrowed by M.B.Kaley. The cover is of a tunnel. There is a woman at the end of the tunnel with her back to the reader. She is looking out at a city in the distance.

Burrowed by Mary Baader Kaley Angry Robot Books, £9.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik When I read the blurb of the book, I was quite intrigued. A genetic plague as a premise for [...]

Available for Pre-Order The Rush’s Echo by Ginger Smith #BookReview #SciFi

09/01/2023

The front cover for The Rush's Echo by Ginger Smith. There are two white lines running down the middle of the black page. There are a few stars dotted around. There is the head and shoulders of a woman on the upper left hand side of the page. Her face is lit up by a white light and her hair is pulled back in a ponytail. There is a man in the middle of the page at the bottom. He is sitting, his legs pulled up to his chin. There are chains around the man's feet and both the man and woman have white power lines running over their head.

The Rush’s Echo by Ginger Smith Pb, £5.78 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming The crew from the Loshad are back, travelling to the Mudar, hoping for tech that will help them prevent [...]

The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence from @HarperCollinsUK #BookReview #Fantasy #SciFi

02/01/2023

The front cover for The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence. There is a woman in the middle of the cover in a large fur coat. Her coat fades away to white at the bottom of the page. The girl is looking up and her hand is outstretched to a star which is in the middle of the first o of moon in the title. Over head, the sky is dark and full of stars.

The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence HarperCollins, Paperback, £8.99 Review by Ian Green The Book of the Ice epic fantasy series from Mark Lawrence concludes with The Girl [...]

THE IMMORTALITY THIEF by Taran Hunt from Solaris #BookReview #SciFi

28/12/2022

THE IMMORTALITY THIEF by Taran Hunt Solaris, Kindle version, £5.99 Review by Stephen Frame The Immortality Thief is about a hunt through an ancient derelict spacecraft for a [...]

Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell from @orbitbooks #BookReview #SciFi #LGBTQA+

26/12/2022

Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell Orbit, pb, £9.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming As a wealthy socialite, Tennal has no responsibilities and bounces from mistake to mistake, [...]

Ion Curtain by Anya Ow from @Rebellion #BookReview #SF

19/12/2022

Ion Curtain by Anya Ow £8.99, paperback, Rebellion Publishing Reviewed by Nadya Mercik A fast-paced story which brings the vibes of Star Trek and Expanse and a good spy [...]

The Devourer by Cixin Liu, adapted by JD Moran and illustrated by Weilin Yang from @HoZ_Books #BookReview #GraphicNovel #Comics #SciFi

02/12/2022

The front cover for The Devourer. A large hollow circular spaceship surrounds the earth. The top of Earth is exploding.

The Devourer by Cixin Liu, adapted by JD Moran and illustrated by Weilin Yang Head of Zeus, pb, £14.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Archaeologists uncover a burial chamber with [...]

DOCTOR WHO: EMPIRE OF THE WOLF By Jody Houser, Roberta Ingranata, Warnia K. Sahadewa from @ComicsTitan #BookReview #GraphicNovel #Comics #DrWho #SciFi

28/11/2022

The front cover Doctor Who The Empire of the Wolf. Two Doctors are bound with electricity ties in front of a woman on a throne.

DOCTOR WHO: EMPIRE OF THE WOLF By Jody Houser, Roberta Ingranata, Warnia K. Sahadewa Titan Comics, s/b, £14.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns This superb graphic novel gives the [...]

The Butterfly by Cixin Liu, adapted and illustrated by Dan Panosian from @HoZ_Books #BookReview #GraphicNovel #Scifi

23/11/2022

The front cover for The Butterfly by Cixin Liu. The picture shows planes flying over head. There are a few clouds in the sky and slipstreams from the plans. There are building roofs and hills in the bottom third of the page. Shades of grey-blue are used for everything except a kaleidoscope of butterflies that are red and gold. The butterflies are racing ahead of the planes.

The Butterfly by Cixin Liu adapted and illustrated by Dan Panosian. Head of Zeus, pb, £14.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming War rages in the skies above Belgrade, and the [...]