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
Xtraterrestrials #AtoZChallenge
A #Storybundle of Book Reviews | Three first in series
Three first in series books take up my review spot today. One way of catching up with the titles read before the year ends. These have all been on my TBR list for a while, and mostly from the excellent
Book Release | Liftoff by Tyrean Martinson
Liftoff: I’m pleased to announce a new book (and series) by Tyrean Martinson, released today! Liftoff (The Rayatana Series, Book 1) by Tyrean Martinson A spaceship in disguise, An Earth girl searching for a sense of home, And a Thousand
Book Review | Jaydium by Deborah Wheeler
Jaydium makes it two scifi books in a row, at least as far as reviews goes. This was a Storybundle offering from last summer. I don’t think I’ve had a dud one yet from Story bundle, although of course, some
Book Review | To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, is a novella from Becky Chambers. You’ll remember I was blown away by her Wayfarers series, starting with Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I got this during a promotion, and also got a
Book Review | Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas
Swashbuckling Cats… is a new anthology from Rhonda Parrish. I hate to say latest, as she’s so prolific, but since it is out this coming week, surely it must be! Already the calls for the next are out, tantalising me
Help! I’ve been Abducted by Aliens Day | Blog Hop
Help! I’ve been Abducted by Aliens Day is a shameless piece of promotion by Patricia Josephine to celebrate the anniversary of her book Abducted Life. Well, why not? I enjoyed it! To celebrate, Patricia has asked a load of us
Book of the Year 2019 – the long list!
My Book of the Year for 2019 is… one of the following. Book of the Year 2019 long list I long list nearly all of those I’ve given five stars on Goodreads during the year. So those are (links to
Spacetime Reading Challenge 2020 – sign up now
SpaceTime Sign-up time! Searching for a Science Fiction Reading Challenge? I had been for years. I found some with lists of classic or ‘new classic’ books to read, but I’ve either done those or rejected them for good reasons! Last
Book Review | Datura by Leena Krohn
Datura is a weird book. I mean that in a good way – it fits into the subgenre of Fantasy/scifi of ‘weird’. Leena Krohn is an award-winning Finnish author, but much of the time this story could be set in
Book Review | The Unwinding by Juliana Rew
The Unwinding: Gin’s Story came as a Net-galley suggestion. Juliana Rew is the editor of the Third Flatiron Anthologies, so I was keen to see what sort of book she wrote herself. I am now totally insecure as a writer.
Book Review | Dining Out with the Gas Giants by Clare O’Beara
Dining out with the Gas Giants is the third in a wonderful series by Clare O’Beara. I started with the second, loved it, and added the first one last year. I don’t think there’s any problem with that approach. The
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with Tony Laplume
Tony Laplume blogs from A to Z in April. One year he wrote a set of 26 character sketches which became a novella. And so it came to pass that it arrived in my hands to review as part of
#FlashbackFriday | Christmas in Spacedock
Christmas in Spacedock was actually my 2016 treat for readers of the Viridian series website, which you can follow here. If you enjoyed Dolores’ adventure in Change of Heart recently (was it really August?!), you might like to discover that
WEP – August #flashfiction | Change of Heart
Change of Heart is the prompt for this, my first entry into the linked up WEP+IWSG short story event. WEP is Write…Edit…Publish, and IWSG is the Insecure Writers Support Group, as you know from myriad first Wednesday of the month