Tag: BSFA Review

  • BOOK REVIEW: ESCAPOLOGY BY REN WAROM

    BOOK REVIEW: ESCAPOLOGY BY REN WAROM

    Escapology by Ren Warom (Titan Books, 2016) If I reveal that the characters in Escapology, Ren Warom’s first novel, have names such as Amiga, Shock, Twist and Deuce then some of you will immediately deduce a great deal more about the book. You’ll intuit that this is an everyday story of hacker folk. You may […]

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  • REVIEW: VIRTUES OF WAR AND GHOSTS OF WAR BY BENNETT R COLES

    The latest issue of The BSFA Review (no.4, Summer 2018) has been published. It contains two of my reviews.  The first one – of a pair of military sf novels by Bennet R Coles – is below. The second will follow shortly. Bennett R Coles is a former Canadian naval officer. His first two novels […]

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  • REVIEW: AURORA RISING/THE PREFECT BY ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

    The latest issue (no. 3) of the BSFA Review is out, and it contains my review of Alastair Reynolds’ Aurora Rising (previously released as The Prefect). This is a slightly extended version. I jumped into the ebook of Alastair Reynolds’ Aurora Rising without glancing at the cover or paying any attention to any publicity or […]

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  • REVIEW: WITCHES OF LYCHFORD BY PAUL CORNELL (AND A RANT ABOUT CLASS)

    Those she talked to who wanted the store to come here had hardly embraced evil. They talked about how hard things were, how they needed to shop more cheaply without spending a lot of money on petrol, how they and their relatives needed the jobs Sovo would provide. There was something of a class divide […]

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