Title: Yellow Blue Tibia Author: Adam Roberts Pages: 336 Genre: Science Fiction Standalone/Series: Standalone Release: Hardback out now / MMPB out 13 May Publisher: Gollancz Synopsis Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat [...]
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Green Review: Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
Title: Seeds of Earth Author: Michael Cobley Pages: 656 Genre: Science Fiction Standalone/Series: Series – Humanity’s Fire Release: Out 21st Jan 2010 in Paperback Publisher: Orbit Synopsis The first intelligent race to encounter humanity is called the Swarm. They are merciless, relentless and unstoppable. With little chance of halting the savage invasion we send three [...]
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 [...]
Promo: Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
Seeds of Earth by Michael CobleyPublished by Orbit and out now First contact was not supposed to be like this. The first intelligent species to encounter Mankind attacked without warning and swarmed locust-like through the solar system. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the savage invasion, Earth’s last, desperate roll of the dice [...]
Review: The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod (Orbit)
Title: The Night Sessions Author: Ken Macleod Publisher: Orbit Published: 7 August 2008 Review Copy Time for a dose of sci-fi and what an injection. Macleod takes us to a near-future Scotland were religion has been removed as a driving force following the ‘Faith Wars’. Religion hasn’t been a concern until a priest is found [...]
