Book Reviews

To date, my book/shortfic reviews have appeared on Yet Another Book Review, SF Crowsnest, The Fix Online, T3A Space, Den of Geek and have not appeared in Scalpel Magazine; I have also had several reviews published in the print journal Vector. These days, I also post reviews directly to NostalgiaForInfinity.com. This way no one fucks with my semi-colons.

Check out the Submissions page if you want to submit something for review.

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Book Reviews

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Short Fiction Reviews

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Vector

Vector is the critical journal of the BSFA and maintains a web presence here.

  • #257: featured my review of The Dark Wraith of Shannara, by Terry Brooks, Edwin David and Robert Place Napton. Read the review here.
  • #258: featured my review of The Invisible War by Paul McAuley. Read the review here.
  • #259: featured my review of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Read the review here.
  • A forthcoming issue will feature my review of This Is Not A Game by Walter Jon Williams.

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T3A Space

T3A Space is the official blog of TTA Press, which publishes Interzone, Black Static, Crimewave and occasionally books, and supports The Fix Online. A large stable of contributors under the watchful eye of editor Paul Raven post occasional book reviews.

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The Fix Online

The Fix is a short fiction review website, relaunched from an earlier print form in late 2007. I’ve been reviewing for The Fix since its relaunch under the editorship of Eugie Foster. Currently, I’m on hiatus from The Fix due to other commitments.

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SF Crowsnest

Written between August 2005 and July 2006. Most recent reviews listed first.

Note that as these reviews are quite old now they’ve been moved into SF Crowsnest’s reviews archive. They’re still on the site but you’ll have to search for them.

  • Paul Park – A Princess of Roumania
  • Tobias S. Buckell – Crystal Rain
  • John Scalzi – Old Man’s War
  • Dave Gibbons – The Originals
  • Brandon Sanderson – Elantris
  • Peter Watts – Behemoth: Seppuku
  • Peter Watts – Behemoth: B-Max
  • George Zebrowski – Macrolife
  • Tim Pratt – The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
  • M. John Harrison – Viriconium
  • Frank & Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson – The Road to Dune
  • Alastair Reynolds – Pushing Ice
  • Alan Moore & David Lloyd – V For Vendetta
  • Jon Courtenay Grimwood – Stamping Butterflies
  • Charles De Lint – Someplace to be Flying
  • Mark D. Giller – Hammerjack
  • Ed Lark – Grief
  • Mark von Schlegell – Venusia
  • Andre Norton – Three Hands for Scorpio
  • Alexander C. Irvine – The Narrows
  • Eric Brown – The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne
  • Tanith Lee – Metallic Love
  • Stel Pavlou – Gene
  • Kelly Link – Stranger Things Happen

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YetAnotherBookReview

Written between January 2005 and late 2006, or thereabouts. Most recent reviews listed first.

Note: YABR has now been taken offline, so I’ve removed all of these links. If anyone is interested in seeing one of these reviews let me know, as it would take a while to get them all online and most of them aren’t that great anyway.

  • Garry Charles – Heaven’s Falling: Ascension
  • Steven Deighan – A Dead Calmness
  • Neil Williamson – The Ephemera
  • Frank Ludlow & Roelof Goudriaan (eds.) – Emerald Eye: The Best Irish Imaginative Fiction
  • Sean Wright – The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor
  • Sean Wright – Wicked or What?
  • Mark West – In The Rain With the Dead
  • Tim Nickels – The English Soil Society
  • Heidi Cyr – X & Y, And Other Like Stories
  • Joseth Moore – The Solar Bridge
  • Neal Asher – Cowl
  • Matt Dinniman – Trailer Park Fairy Tales
  • Tim Lees – The Life to Come
  • Arrand Pritchard – Sauria
  • J.M. Lamoreaux – Patient 444 and other short stories
  • Richard Morgan – Woken Furies
  • China Mieville – Perdido Street Station
  • China Mieville – The Scar
  • Neal Asher – The Line of Polity
  • Grant Naylor – Red Dwarf Omnibus
  • Clive Barker – Abarat
  • Max Brooks – The Zombie Survival Guide
  • Niven, Pournelle, Barnes – The Legacy of Heorot (second review on page.)
  • Peter Hamilton – the Night’s Dawn trilogy
  • Neal Asher – Gridlinked
  • Richard Paul Russo – Unto Leviathan

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Old Articles

Some Other Advice On Writing – 2006. An article written for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop newsletter (first appeared in #298). It’s a ragtag, motley bundle of assorted advice, tips, etc.

Recommended Books On Writing – 2006. Another article written for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop newsletter (first appeared in #297). This one’s basically just a glorified but concise list of books that I think are useful for writers.

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Essays

Some of my old essays on a variety of topics. These are from my time at the University of Sussex as an undergraduate studying English Literature. As far as I know the copyright for these essays belongs to the university, but since I wrote them and am not using them for commercial purposes I figure putting them up here qualifies as fair use.

Autobiographies of Death, Life and Love: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Rose – 2003. A 2000-word essay examining three autobiographical works in which the themes of death, life, and love are prevalent. The works in question are Jean-Paul Sartre’s Words (Les Mots), Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work, and Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death.

Ian McEwan as a “New Eroticist”: The ‘Night Words’ of In Between The Sheets – 2003. A 2000-word essay examining some of Ian McEwan’s early short stories through the lens of George Steiner’s essays on erotic fiction.

The Uncanny in China Miéville’s “New Weird”: An Examination of Perdido Street Station and The Scar – 2003. A 2000-word essay searching for elements of what we understand as “uncanniness” (das unheimliche) in China Mieville’s Bas-Lag novels

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