Book Review – Redemption Ark
Author: Alastair Reynolds Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2003 I read Reynolds’ first novel Revelation Space in July. It’s an interesting book but on some points it leaves something to be desired. Reynolds has written four more books set in the same universe, as well as a number of shorter [...]
Book Review – Ash
Author: Mary Gentle Cover Artist: John Howe Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1999 ASH – A Secret History can in many respects be regarded as Mary Gentle’s magnum opus, both in terms of volume (a whopping 1100 pages) and in terms of its ambition and scope. It is also a work of literature that [...]
Exclusive – Principles of Angels by Jaine Fenn (Chapter 1)
Got another sample here for the people. Some SF goodness from the good folks at Gollancz. It’s been awhile since a Tomio/Gollancz collabo – that have in some shadows, previously caused minor cults – has occurred and the only people who have suffered are the potential readers, so lets hope this is the beginning of even more! What we have here is the first chapter from Jaine Fenn’s recently released debut novel Principles of Angels. This was published last June and what we have is a pretty meaty chapter (it is my opinion that chapter length has been gradually going down – that Warren Ellis has found a way to barely even use pages!). I hope you enjoy!
I want to thank Ms. Fenn, Gollancz, and John Jarrold for all having a hand in this!
Book Review – Rendezvous with Rama
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Cover Artist: Steve Stone Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 After 2001: A Space Odyssey this book is probably Clarke’s most influential work. It was published in 1973 and won just about every science fiction major award. And rightly so, this book is a triumph of imagination. In fact, after [...]
Book Review – Revelation Space
Author: Alastair Reynolds Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2000 The first book of the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds and his début novel. It’s also the first book I have read by this author and I must say I am impressed. Not that the book is flawless but there [...]
Book Review – Eye
Author: Frank Herbert Cover Artist: Jim Burns Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 1985 Eye is a short story collection but Frank Herbert and one of his last works. Published in 1985, the same year his sixth Dune novel Chapterhouse: Dune was published, it covers most of his career. Like many SF authors he began [...]
Book Review – Cartomancy
Author: Mary Gentle Cover Artist: Les Edwards Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2004 Cartomancy is a collection of short fiction by Mary Gentle. I am appreciating this kind of writing a lot more than I used to for some reason. I got a short story collection by Frank Herbert on the to read pile [...]
Book Review – Illario: The Lion’s Eye
Author: Mary Gentle Cover Artist: Les Edwards Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2007 Ilario: the Lion’s Eye is set in the same world as Gentle’s much acclaimed Ash: A Secret History. Both are marketed as fantasy but personally I think of them as alternative history. In Ash Gentle introduces us to a medieval Europe [...]
Book Review – Black Man
Author: Richard K. Morgan Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May, 2007 Black Man is British science fiction author Richard Morgan’s fifth novel. Debuting in 2003 with the first of his Takeshi Kovacs casebooks, Altered Carbon, he has gradually established himself as a force to be reckoned with and an author we’ve come to expect [...]
Book Review – Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective
Author: George R.R. Martin Cover Artist: Dominic Harman Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 In Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective George R.R. Martin looks back on his impressive writing career. It contains short fiction from all phases of his career, covering more than three decades. Dreamsongs consist of 34 stories in different genres as well as [...]
Book Review – The Last Wish
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April, 2007 The Last Wish by Polish ‘superstar’ writer Andrzej Sapkowski, is a mosaic novel compromising seven short stories alternated with a short scene, which bridges the several short stories. It sort of introduces the reader to the cast and setting. Sapkowski began writing in the [...]
Book Review – Altered Carbon
Author: Richard K. Morgan Cover Artist: Chris Moore Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2002 Altered Carbon is the debut novel of British SF writer Richard Morgan. Set in a universe in which the UN (United Nations) Protectorate oversees a number of extrasolar planets settled by human beings, the hard-boiled science fiction novel features [...]
