On Books

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.

Warning: the further down this page you scroll, the shittier and more ineptly-written the reviews will become.

 

Book Reviews

• S.L. Grey – The Mall (for Vector)
• Gord Zajac – Major Karnage (for Vector)
• John Trevillian – The A-Men
• John Perkins – Confessions of an Economic Hitman
• Rebecca Levene – Tomes of the Dead: Anno Mortis
• Colin Harvey – Winter Song
• Alison Bechdel – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
• Steven Blush – American Hardcore: A Tribal History
• Joseph Patrick Larkin – The Arcade of Cruelty
• Eric Grubbs – Post: A Look at the Influences of Post-Hardcore 1985-2007
• Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes (for Vector)
• Paul McAuley – The Quiet War (for Vector)
• Stephen Grant & Scott Bieser – Odysseus the Rebel
• Terry Brooks, Edwin David & Robert Place Naptop – The Dark Wraith of Shannara (for Vector)
• Steven Deighan & Terry Cooper – Feels Like Stephen King
• Mitch Clem – Nothing Nice To Say (Volume 2)
• Kim Lakin-Smith – Tourniquet
• Aphra Behn – Oronooko (BlogAPenguinClassic.com review)
• Mike O’Driscoll – Unbecoming
• Ellis Sharp – Walthamstow Central
• Patrick Hughes – Diary of Indignities
• Jonathan Green – Unnatural History: Pax Britannia
• Michael Muhammad Knight – The Taqwacores
• William Blum – Rogue State

 

Short Fiction & Magazine Reviews

• A capella Zoo issue #5
• Interzone issue #231
• Re/Action issue #1
• Futurismic: Uxo, Bomb Dog
• Hub Magazine #12 – 18

 

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.
• #264: featured my review of This Is Not A Game by Walter Jon Williams. Read the review here.
• #265: featured my review of Major Karnage by Gord Zajac. Read the review here.
• #266: featured my review of Tomes of the Dead: Anno Mortis by Rebecca Levene. This is an edited review which originally appeared on NFI – read it here.
• #268: featured my review of The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon.
• Forthcoming issues will feature my reviews of The Mall by S. L. Grey and a three-parter review of books by Lavie Tidhar, Roy Gray and Tim Maughan.

 

Expired Reviews & Expired Review Spaces

T3A Space was the official blog of TTA Press, which publishes Interzone, Black Static, Crimewave and occasionally books, and supported The Fix Online.

• Henry Gee (ed.) – Futures From Nature: 100 Speculative Fictions (review has now vanished)

The Fix was a short fiction review website, relaunched from an earlier print form in late 2007. I reviewed for The Fix during ’07 and early ’08 under the editorship of Eugie Foster. I went on hiatus from The Fix due to other commitments and it is now unfortunately no longer active.

• Lone Star Stories #26
• Hub Magazine #35 – 38
• Clarkesworld Magazine #14
• Shiny #1

SF Crowsnest continues to be a big ol’ science fiction and fantasy website. I wrote reviews for it between August 2005 and July 2006. My reviews have long since been archived but may still be available. I wouldn’t recommend it, though, as I don’t feel these reviews were very good.

• 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

YetAnotherBookReview was a genre book review website a friend invited me to join her on. I contributed between January 2005 and late 2006, or thereabouts. The site is now dead and I’ve not bothered republishing my reviews as I don’t think they were very good.

• 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