Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Over the years I’ve read all seven of the Emperor’s Edge series, Lindsay Buroker’s wonderful alternative universe with some elements of steampunk and other of scifi. It starts when Amaranthe is kicked out of the Emperor’s law-enforcers for something she
SkyKeep is book 2 of the highly enjoyable steampunkish airship fantasy series by Joseph R Lallo. I may have got the first as a freebie, but I’m happy to purchase the rest of them. The standard is excellent. SkyKeep (Free-Wrench
Fractions of Existence is possibly one I bought. If not, thank you to the author who had it on special offer or gave me a copy. This will be an honest, unbiased review, even though J is a frequent supporter
Silver and Iron completes the SAGE Trilogy. I reviewed the first, The Fall of Onagros in April 2020 and the second, Bargain with Fate in January. I think I commented about the need to keep track of this amazingly complex
The Raven Boys went on my to-read list at the end of 2014, after I’d been blown away by the Scorpio Races. Judging from the Waterstones receipt inside my paperback copy, I decided to buy it in 2019. I thought
Bargain with Fate — I needed to read this and another in December to get to the top of my TBR mountain. I’m not reviewing the other one, as it was a big non-fiction one with several things to say
Free-Wrench has been on my TBR since 2016, and I kept meaning to read it. What a treat this turned out to be! Even better, it’s the first in a series of six. I seem to have the second on
Thief of Time is no 26 in the Discworld series, and last of five in a subset called Death. Cheerful! Unlike most of my friends (and probably most Discworld readers), I have a random approach to the order I read
The Fall of Onagros has been on my TBR list since March 2013. That’s more or less when it was published. If you remember, I used to prune my list on a thing called Down the TBR hole, which I
I was looking forward to finding a title beginning with X for my flash fiction today, although I was also tempted to borrow Rebecca Douglass’s spaceman Xavier Xanthum. Then I realised it was the last Friday of the month, so
Willoughby starts with W. What better way to fulfil the W post of the #AtoZChallenge than launching my latest book. It’s out today on all platforms and should be in all the online stores. If you haven’t read any of
I raced through a few books at the end of the year (well, I didn’t race through all of them) that I didn’t get time to review, and which for various reasons I don’t feel like giving a full review