Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Ichor Well is book 3, and the Calderan Problem book 4, of the highly enjoyable steampunkish Free-Wrench series by Joseph R Lallo. So enjoyable, I started reading some of his other series. Ichor Well (Free-Wrench #3) Ever since Nita Graus
Ghost Pirate Gambit is the start of a series by Jessie Kwak that I got from storybundle (along with several other very enjoyable scifi books). I think storybundle.com is an excellent source of fantasy, scifi and also other genres (including
The Body In The Zero Gee Brothel is a novella (or ‘novelette’ according to the publisher) by Cameron Cooper, the first in a series of tales about a private law enforcer called Ptolemy Lane. I think I’d call it noir
I’ve had Knight Moves on my kindle since 2015 and I’ve no idea where I got it. It suffered from not having a Goodreads description, although the ebook does, and I’ve quoted it here. I read several of the reviews
I’m fairly sure I got Forgotten Lore as a freebie from Rhonda Parrish’s website or mailing list last year (although it seems to have been 22 on my Goodreads list!). I’ve been looking forward to reading it. Forgotten Lore Blanket
Juicy Ghosts has been sitting on my Kindle for about eighteen months, and I’d earmarked it for this year’s J in the Alphabet Soup Challenge. A nice weird conclusion, really! I got it in a storybundle and then got some
I gathered A Beautiful Friendship and Firstborn together simply because they seem to be written for an early-teen audience, despite not really fitting their respective genres. The first was a book of the month for the Goodreads Space Opera Group.
Monk and Robot is currently a duology of novella length books from Becky Chambers. The words Becky Chambers signal excellence in world-building, understand the human and non-human-psyche, and a lot more. I was going to put this series in my
I’ve been reviewing the Cassa series as I read it, which was out of order! In the correct order, it’s CassaDawn, (prequel short story recently released), CassaStar (#1), Cassa Fire, CassaStorm, CassaDark. So, having gone 1, 4, 2, 3, prequel,
Common Ground and other stories by Mackey Chandler, and Xeelee Vengeance, by Stephen Baxter. Both selected as Books of the Month sometime this year in the Goodreads Space Opera Group. Both good reads. One short and funny, one long and
Revenge of the Space-Surfing Butt Monkeys by C.D. Gallant-King is out today! What? Yes… it’s quite a title, isn’t it. And the cover – isn’t exactly shy, either! Watch out for my review in the next few months–after all, it
I came across Andorra Pett some time ago, and of course, I couldn’t resist adding her to my TBR. Pett isn’t exactly a common surname. I hope to ask the author how he picked it later, but first, the book
Space Opera. A book title, not necessarily a genre, although Space Opera is definitely space opera. I popped it on my list as I read the blurb when it came out. Then I saw it in my library… and brought
Today I’m reviewing Voyage of the White Cloud, but I’m also previewing Giftmas. Whatmas? Giftmas! You can look back on last year’s event to get the gist of it, but there are some special things about this year’s event. It
Xtraterrestrials is a post I wrote for the 2018 A to Z. I did a lot of work on it, then suddenly there was so much news about exoplanets, that I did that instead. This post on extraterrestrials never saw