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Review: Infoquake by David Louis Edelman (Solaris)

Title: Infoquake
Author: David Louis Edelman
Publisher: Solaris
Published: 7 July 2008
Review Copy
What could high-tech business look like in the future? If Infoquake is anything to go by quite cutthroat. Dominated by bio/logics, a way of programming the body, the world that David Louis Edelman has created is packed full of technology and commentary on consumer society.
I must [...]

Review: Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

Title: The Stone Gods
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 27 September 2007
Price: £16.99
Review Copy
The Stone Gods is described as an ‘intergalactic love story’ set as man is due to colonise a new blue planet just like ours before we started using more than we put back.
Winterson starts well enough with the tale of Billie who hasn’t [...]

Debut [not a] Review: The Electric Church by Jeff Somers

Title: The Electric Church
Author: Jeff Somers
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 20 September 2007
Price: £9.99
Review Copy
Normally I put down books that I don’t enjoy, stick it on the little list on the sidebar and move on. But there has been a lot of hype for The Electric Church so I can’t really just let it drift off.
It all comes [...]

Future Classics?

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Gollancz has posed a question for readers with its latest promotion. It has re-released and re-jacketed eight bestselling novels and asked are they Future [...]

Review: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton

Title: The Dreaming Void
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 3 August 2007
Price: £17.99
Review Copy
I don’t know where to start. Really. Peter F. Hamilton has a packed a universe into a 600 pages and I’m surprised that the books aren’t spontaneously exploding on the shelves.
There is a Void in space [...]

Bits and Bobs

I’m not very good at waiting and patience is never something I’m good at. So I’m wondering how long do you wait before assuming that you’re never going to get a response to that email you’ve sent? I waited a week then sent a follow-up and still nothing. It’s just very disappointing to think that [...]

Supporting the Sci-Fi mags

The brilliant people at Blackfish Publishing have managed to release another fabulous
Death Ray #3 is in the shops!
The third issue of Death Ray is on the newsstands.
And of course we have the latest issue of the long running Interzone:
T3A Space » Archive » Interzone 211 Has Mailed Out
It’s the Michael Moorcock special issue – guest [...]