The Fuller Memorandum Charles Stross Orbit Books Out Now We’re used to series having a regularity and rhythm to them. But The Laundry series is a little more erratic to say the least. Not that it’s anyones fault as such. We’ve had two almost full novels, 4 novella/shorts, this full novel and two more still [...]
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Review: Under The Dome by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Under the Dome is a big book in both pages and in terms of scope but one that takes place in one town, Chester’s Mill. And it’s probably true to say that that King is going to be testing himself to the limit with this book. The title of Under the Dome describes the events [...]
Currently Reading: Under the Dome by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Under the Dome by Stephen King Published Today by Hodder On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand [...]
Review: Something Borrowed by Paul Magrs (Headline Review)
Something Borrowed by Paul Magrs Published by Headline Review and Out Now in paperback I’ve never been to Whitby, and if it’s anything like the place the Paul Magrs describes, I’m not sure whether to jump in the car or lock the doors and stay at home. There are more than a few strange goings [...]
Cover P0rm: Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner and Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
Well here they are. The first two covers of the new imprint Angry Robot Books. Their mission: quite simply, is to publish the best in brand new genre fiction – SF, F and WTF?! And these two Nekropolis and Slights seem to be just that. Both are eye catching. Slights is almost terror inducing [...]
Promo: The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom (Sphere)
The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom (Sphere) Released: 1 January 2009 When Conrad Harrison impulse-buys a big old house in Wisconsin, his wife Jo doesn’t share his enthusiasm, reluctant at the idea of leaving their LA life – so Conrad is left to set up their new home as she ties up loose ends at [...]
Out of the depths
I’m feeling decidedly non-booky at the moment. No curling up on the sofa and letting the world fade away. Nothing read. Nothing bought. No obsessive surfing. But despite that let’s see what I can do as I’ve still been visiting my favourite blogs and keeping half an eye on the book-o-sphere. Graphic Novels are the [...]
Review: Never the Bride by Paul Magrs
Title: Never the Bride Author: Paul Magrs Publisher: headline review Published: 3 May 2007 Price: £7.99 Bought it This is one book that after I read the blurb and just had to read. Never the Bride is set in Whitby, which is also a setting in the original vampire novel Dracula, so it’s no stranger [...]
Review: The Jennifer Morgue
Title: The Jennifer Morgue Author: Charles Stross Publisher: Orbit Published: 6 September 2007 Price: £6.99 Review Copy The Jennifer Morgue is a sequel to The Atrocity Archives and takes place a couple of years after the events in original. Bob Howard has had a promotion to the lowest grade that carries significant managerial responsibility and [...]
Review: The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Title: The Atrocity Archives Author: Charles Stross Publisher: Orbit Published: 2007 Price: £6.99 Shelf Copy Charles Stross is a very prolific writer but this is my first chance to sample his very active imagination. And what an imagination: we have terrorists, Nazis, horrors from other dimensions, secret government departments, and a techie called Bob who’s [...]
