Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton Out Now in Paperback from Pan Macmillan (cover from the Sept ’10 reissue) There is only one place to start when talking about Pandora’s Star. It’s size. At 1152 pages of big. But it’s not only the time that you invest reading a big book it’s the mental capacity you [...]
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BSFA Best Novel 2010 Nominee: The City & The City by China Miéville (Pan)
Title: The City & The City Author: China Miéville Pages: 500 Genre: Fantasy Standalone/Series: Standalone Release: Out Now in Paperback Publisher: Pan Synopsis When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes?el, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector [...]
H2G2 Review: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (Pan)
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams Published by Pan and Out Now You’d think that being just under 200 pages that Douglas Adams would be a quick read wouldn’t you? Well you’d be wrong. You could speed read him and I’m sure you’d get a bit of pleasure but not as much as [...]
H2G2 Review: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (Pan)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (30th Anniversary Edition) by Douglas Adams Published by Pan and out now Review Copy I can now confirm that whatever version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide that appears in my head it’s not the books. I think I’ve deluded myself that after a 16 plus years gap that [...]
H2G2 Week: Introduction to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
It’s almost one week to go until it’s the 30th anniversary of publication of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel by Douglas Adams. And I hope you’re excited? You are right? What do you mean you’ve never heard of it? Sheesh call yourself a sci-fi fan and you mean to tell me that you’ve [...]
Questions for Peter F. Hamilton?
To celebrate the release of the paperback of The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton on the 2nd October PanMacmillan are going to release a video interview with the man himself taking place on the 24th of September. So do have a question about the Void trilogy, or any of the rest of his work, [...]
Promo: Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory Browne (Pan Books)
Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory BrownePublished by Pan Books on 1st May 2009 FBI agent Anna McBride has reached a crisis point in her life. Disgraced and demoted after leading a disastrous operation in South San Francisco, she finds herself reassigned to one of the Bureau’s Southern California satellite offices, stuck with a partner [...]
Review: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
Title: Un Lun Dun Author: China Miéville Publisher: Pan Published: 5 Feb 2007 Price: £6.99 Review Copy I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading Un Lun Dun. All I knew about Miéville was that he was an imaginative and political writer who could be categorised as writing in the New Weird tradition [...]
Some April Releases that Caught my Eye on Amazon.co.uk
Going on Amazon is a really dangerous thing for me, as is stepping in places that sell books, as I usually end up buying something. On this occasion I resisted buying anything but here are some of the books that caught my eye. I’ve also added a couple of moments about why they looked interesting. [...]