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- Short Story Month: Outro
- SSM Guest Review: A Woman Naked by Christopher Priest from Ian Sales
- SSM Guest Review: Dirae by Peter S Beagle from Amanda Rutter
- Housekeeping: Ads
- SSM Guest Review: The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman from N. R. Alexander
- SSM Guest Review: Ten for the Devil by Charles de Lint from Liz De Jager
- SSM Guest Review: The Sleeping Serpent by Pamela Sargent from Cara Murphy (@Murf61)
- SSM Guest Review: How to Make Monsters by Gary McMahon from Sharon Ring
- SSM Guest Review: The Turing Test by Chris Beckett from David Hebblethwaite
- SSM Guest Review: The Shadow by Edith Nesbit from Aishwarya Subramanian
- Report: London trip – Three of the Best! @ FP
- SSMVideo: Neil Gaiman talks about all things Stories
- SSM Guest Review: The Wendigo (1910) By Algernon Blackwood from Jonathan McCalmont
- SSM Review: From the Lighthouse by Garth Nix (Across the Wall)
- And the votes for my July 1st three extra reads are in...
- SSM Guest Collection Review: The Engineer Reconditioned by Neal Asher (from Mark Chitty)
- Shoot the Cannon - SF is in danger of being introspective and inbred? Give me New Shiny!
- SSM Guest Review: At Reparata by Jeffrey Ford from Paul Charles Smith
- Question: Why don’t Science Fiction fans look to the future?
- SSM Review: Dead Can Dance by Xiaolu Guo (Lovers in the Age of Indifference)
- SSM Review: The End of the World Show by David Barnett (The Janus House and Other Two-Faced Tales)
- Rant: Science Fiction isn't just dying it has crumbled to dust. Where is the new blood?
- News: I was mentioned in The Times on Saturday!
- SSM Review: Killing the Dead by Ian Sales (Edison's Frankenstein Postscripts 20/21)
- Vote & Help! What do you think I should have read by 1st July?
- SSM Guest Review: love songs for the shy and cynical by Robert Shearman from Hagelrat
- SSM Guest Review: Lost and Found by Simon Avery from Sharon Ring
- SSM Review (Repost): A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz)
- SSM Review: Bloody by Roddy Doyle (Stories)
- Guest YA Review: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (Simon Pulse)
- SSM Guest Review: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman from Jonathan McCalmont
- SSM Review: Devil’s Arcade - Mark Charan Newton (Darkness on the Edge)
- SSM Review: The Wizards of Perfil by Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)
- News: I'm quoted in today's Guardian Review!
- SSM: Wasn't there a Magazine Launch Today?
- SSM Guest Review: Numbers In The Dark by Italo Calvino from M.G. Harris (#9 on the ZERO MOMENT blog tour)
- SSM Review: Second Wind by Mike Carey (Zombie)
- Open Thread: What's Your Favourite Short Story?
- Intro: Short Story Month
- Is it science? The City & The City by China Miéville Wins the Arthur C Clarke Award 2010
- Green Review: The Stone-Cutter by Camilla Läckberg (Harper)
- Updates and Future Planning
- Green Review: The Preacher by Camilla Läckberg (Harper)
- Green Review: The Ice-Princess by Camilla Läckberg (Harper)
- Interview: Camilla Läckberg - The Stone Cutter
- This Week is Camilla Läckberg Week - Intro
- Green Review: Kraken by China Miéville (Macmillan)
- Thoughts: Not Very Rewarding? Is the Gemmell Award Bad for the Genre?
- Trailer: 15 years of Voyager
- Nothing to blog but I’m working on it
- Taking Time Out For A Bit aka Being An Anti-Social Hermit
- Eastercon 2010 Thoughts: Should a blogger spend your money for you?
- A Few Eastercon 2010 Thoughts - Introduction
- BSFA Best Novel 2010: And the Winner is...
- BSFA 2010 Challenge: Fail
- Not a BSFA Best Novel 2010 Nominee: Flood by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Updates – what’s happening?
- BSFA Best Novel 2010 Nominee: Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- BSFA Best Novel 2010 Nominee: Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin (Gollancz)
- BSFA Best Novel 2010 Nominee: The City & The City by China Miéville (Pan)
- New Releases: The Good Man Jesus & The Scoundrel Christ iPhone App
- This Week is... BSFA Best Novel Nominee 2010 Week
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 28 March Edition
- Question: Should One Book Redefine a Genre?
- Discuss: Older Books Aren't Exciting...
- Question: Is there a bigger picture?
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 21 March Edition
- Green Review: Destroyer of Worlds by Mark Chadbourn
- Lists/Awards: British Fantasy Awards 2010 – Best Novel
- Question: Books can wait...can't they?
- Question: Why not just read and review the books you want to read?
- Guest YA Review: Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz (Atom)
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 14 March Edition
- List: Unbound! & NextRead’s Top 50 SFF Books
- Update – Läckberg, BSFA Awards, Short Stories, Magazine and being elsewhere…
- Green Review: Florence & Giles by John Harding (blue door)
- Not an Ad: The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke (Orbit)
- Video: The Making of a Book Cover - Amazing
- Question: How Would You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 7 March Edition
- World Book Day Question: I Wanna Know One Book That Everyone Should Read?
- Magazine: Yog’s Law Wins - Open to All Submissions
- Magazine: Challenges, Changes and Feedback Needed
- Magazine: Rethink in progress
- News: The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival Sat 20th to Sun 28th March 2010
- NextRead Magazine: Submissions Open
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 28 February Edition
- Exclusive Short Story: The Midnight Watch by Tim Waggoner (Nekropolis and Dead Streets) from Angry Robot)
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 21 February Edition
- Idea: Next Read Short Story Magazine
- New Releases: Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (Snowbooks)
- Green Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
- Question: Are you looking for book reviewers?
- Link: I'm interviewed by Harry over at Temple Library Reviews
- Book-o-sphere Round–up: 14 February Edition
- In The Mail: Saturday 13th February Bumper Edition
- Amber Review: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot Books)
- Cover P0Rn: The Technician, The Age of Zeus and Shine
- It's a (Very) Short Story Competition - Judged by Angry Robot's Guy Adams
- Book-o-sphere Round - up: 7 February Edition
- Green Review: Horns by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
- Reading List Survey: Dark Fantasy
- Reading List: Locus Online Magazine 2009 Recommended Reading List
- News: Angry Robot Announces a New Way of Telling Stories (with added exclusive content)
- Question: How many is too many?
- NextRead Monthly Round-up: January 2010
- Book-o-sphere Round-up: 31 January Edition
- Green Review: Killer by Dave Zeltserman (Serpent’s Tail)
- News: iPad and iBooks
- Awards: BSFA Best Novel Nominations
- Book-o-sphere Round-up: 24 January Edition
- Red Review: Hyddenworld: Spring by William Horwood (Macmillian)
- In the Mail: Saturday 23rd January Bumper Edition
- Review Delayed - Hyddenworld: Spring
- Question: Should publishers just hire writers to write what they want to sell?
- Review Coming This Week: Hyddenworld: Spring & Vote Results
- Question: ARCs and Books Received. Do you want to know?
- Book-o-sphere Round-up : 17 January Edition
- Green Review: Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
- Reviews Coming This Week: Seeds of Earth & Vote for What I Read Next!
- Book-o-sphere Round-up : 10 January Edition
- Green Review: Hell’s Belles by Paul Magrs
- Green Review: Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Green Review: Small Favour by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Green Review: White Night by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Green Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday)
- Reviews Coming This Week: Terry Pratchett, Jim Butcher & Paul Magrs
- Happy New Year!
- Announcement: January is Comic Book Appreciation Month on Temple Library Reviews
- Round-Up: Other 2009 Book Lists
- Round-Up: The Reads 2009
- My Guest Post for Smugglivus on The Book Smugglers is up
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
- House Keeping: This and That
- Comment: iPhone and ebooks
- 'I Ain't Dead' ...
- No Mojo: Otherwise known as not reading
- Interview: Paul Magrs, Hell’s Belles (Headline Review)
- Competition and review repost: The Gabble and other stories by Neal Asher (Tor UK)
- Interview: Neal Asher – The Gabble and other stories (Tor UK)
- In Celebration: Reviews of Mythago Wood and Avilion by Robert Holdstock RIP 1948-2009
- Sunday Thinking: Genre has no value, or is this just more Stephen King bashing? At least it sells!
- Catching up: Signings, books, books and books
- This is something you can really safely ignore
- Review: Under The Dome by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Sunday Thinking: Reviews, what are they good for?
- Trailer: The Brothers Grossbart on Sin from The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
- Feature: Reached 100!!
- Cover P0Rn: Paperback of Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton (Tor UK)
- Review: Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs (Headline Review)
- Links: Interviews with Blake Charlton and Paul Magrs
- Update: When one isn't enough
- Currently Reading: Under the Dome by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Request/Challenge: Looking Back - 98 Reviews Done. Whose next?
- Winners: A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
- New Books Announced for 2010: The Reapers are The Angels and White Tiger
- New Feature: News from a 140 characters
- Spotlight/In the Mail: October Round UP
- Competition Winners: Mike Carey's The Naming of the Beasts
- Warning: NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow
- Review: Something Borrowed by Paul Magrs (Headline Review)
- Competition: Win A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz)
- Review: A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz)
- H2G2 Review: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (Pan)
- Commentary: How far should crime writers go?
- Competition: Win The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Review: The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Review: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (headline)
- Update: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
- H2G2Comp: And the winner is…
- Update: House Keeping
- Spotlight: Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by A E Moorat (Hodder)
- Update: Stock Taking Coming Soon
- H2G2 Video: Don’t Panic Eoin Colfer talks about And Another Thing…
- H2G2 Spotlight: And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer (Penguin)
- H2G2 Week: It’s getting extended
- News: Douglas Adam's 30 year old cult classic outsells Dan Brown on the iPhone
- H2G2 Review: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (Pan)
- Review: A Proper Education for Girls by Elaine di Rollo (Vintage)
- Review: Stairway to Hell by Charlie Williams (Serpent's Tail)
- Comment: More on the “International” Amazon.com Kindle
- News: Amazon.com’s Kindle coming to the UK, kinda
- H2G2 Week: Competition Time
- Review: Iron Angel by Alan Campbell (Tor UK)
- Video Interview: Peter F. Hamilton Parts One & Two
- H2G2 Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Pan)
- H2G2 Week: Introduction to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- This is a test
- Spotlight/New Additions: McGann, Carey, Palmer, McAuley, Harris, Williams
- Report: Gollancz Autumn Party
- Spotlight/In the Mail: Mega Edition
- Update: What I'm juggling, I mean reading
- Questions for Peter F. Hamilton?
- Comment: Are people who like SF&F over literature failing to grow-up?
- Review: Nova War by Gary Gibson (Tor UK)
- Comment: Dan Who?
- Review: Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- News: The Fry Effect and the power of Social Media?
- Cover P0rn: The Orphaned Worlds by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
- Library P0rn: Shelfari shows off Neil Gaiman’s Bookshelves
- Award: Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlist
- Comment: I’m also a coward – the lack of scoring of reviews
- News: Crime Thriller Awards 2009 Shortlists
- Cover P0rn: Tor UK shows off New Neal Asher, Col Buchanan and Mark Charan Newton
- Review: Stealing Light by Gary Gibson (Tor UK)
- News: Canongate to publish Philip Pullman’s retelling of the myth of Jesus
- Catch Up and Comment: RSS Feed Reading and Twiiter
- Promo: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Comment: Blogroll and RSS update
- Promo: The Wonder of Whiffling by Adam Jacot de Boinod (Particular Books)
- SR Review: In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan (Orbit)
- Update: September on NextRead
- Review: Mythago Wood and Avilion on The Book Smugglers
- SR09 Review: Echoes From The Dead by Johan Theorin (Black Swan)
- UnReview: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (Headline)
- Comment: SEVEN ESSENTIAL FANTASY READS: GOING TO SECOND BASE from The New Yorker
- Update: Holiday Reads
- Hiatus: Summer Holidays
- News and Comment: The Man Booker 2009
- News and Promo: Transition by Iain Banks - Free audio podcast coming in September
- Promo: My School Book Club
- SR09 Review: The Last Colony by John Scalzi (UKTor)
- SR09 Review: Lord of Silence by Mark Chadbourn (Solaris)
- Update: Reads and Reading
- Publisher Promo: Telegram Books
- SR09 Review: The Devil’s Paintbrush by Jake Arnott (Sceptre)
- Thoughts and Links: Sunday 11 July Edition
- Summer Reads 2009
- Comment: Year in Review - Half Way
- Hiatus
- Links: Sunday 28th June Edition (I just couldn't resist)
- Comment: Bloggers and selling books a few thoughts
- Cover P0rn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (Gollancz)
- Comment: Personal Journeys in Reading
- News: Science fiction author lands £1m book deal
- Review: The Affinity Bridge by George Mann (Snowbooks)
- Ebooks: COOL-ER Launches in the UK
- Book P0rn: an order from Amazon and some new review copies
- Competition: Win a Signed Copy of Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey
- Review: Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Links: Sunday 14th June Edition
- Comment: Ebooks and Ereading Update
- Release Round-Up: Missing from May and New to June, Mostly
- Interview: Mark Charan Newton – Nights of Villjamur
- Twitter Links: A few reasons to be on Twitter
- Review: Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas (Vintage)
- Comment: Finds in the real world
- Review: Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton (UK Tor)
- Links: The Twitter Edition - it’s a bit like Marmite
- Question: How do you choose what to read next?
- Links – Massive Catch-up Edition
- Personal: I’m back!
- Promo: Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Promo: The Devil’s Paintbrush by Jake Arnott (Sceptre)
- Promo: White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (Picador)
- Promo: The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (HarperCollins)
- Promo: The City & The City by China Mieville (Macmillan)
- Personal: I’m away
- Cover P0rn: The Immorality Engine by George Mann (Snowbooks) – secret bonus p0rn at the end ;)
- More News: War of the Words, Villjamur US, Hay Digital and others
- Promo: The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (Canongate)
- News: Forthcoming fantasy debut - Farlander by Colin Buchanan
- Review: The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell (Serpent’s Tail)
- News: Book Deals and Writing Comp
- Promo: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick (Gollancz UK & Del Rey US)
- Review: Half the Blood of Brooklyn by Charlie Huston (Orbit) includes previous reviews and new release preview
- Promo/Promo P0rn: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen (Harvill Secker)
- New Feature: Five Posts from Five Blogs published in April
- Feature: Richard & Judy Book Club Summer Reads 2009
- List: Five Books I Love
- Promo: Hellboy: The Fire Wolves by Tim Lebbon (Dark Horse)
- Stuff: Challenges, changes and things
- Promo: Monster by A. Lee Martinez (Orbit US)
- Debut Review: The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison (SIMON AND SCHUSTER)
- Promo: Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory Browne (Pan Books)
- Promo: Blood Hunters by Steve Voake (Faber Kids)
- News: Canongate Launches Cultural Hub Online
- Promo: Iron Angel by Alan Campbell (Tor UK)
- Cover P0rm: Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner and Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
- Promo: Glister by John Burnside (Vintage)
- The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas (Harvill Secker)
- Promo: In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan (Orbit)
- Promo: The Seance by John Harwood – A Victorian Mystery (Vintage)
- Review: Dead Beat by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Promo: Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
- Promo: Glady Mitchell – The Saltmarsh Murders, Tom Brown’s Body and When Last I Died (Vintage)
- Review: Eagle Rising by David Devereux (Gollancz)
- Cover P0rn: Red Claw by Philip Palmer (Orbit)
- Review: Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
- Review: Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher (Tor UK)
- Debut Interview: Josh Bazell – Beat the Reaper (William Heineman)
- Cover P0rn: The Skinner and Cowl both by Neal Asher (Tor UK)
- Debut Review: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (William Heinemann)
- Promo: Cold Blood by James Fleming (Jonathan Cape)
- Promo: Risk – The Science of Politics and Fear by Dan Gardner (Virgin)
- Debut Review: A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin (Orbit)
- Debut Interview: Kate Griffin – A Madness of Angels (Orbit)
- I’m back…
- Cover P0rn: The Codex of Alera – a series by Jim Butcher (Orbit) plus Turn Coat Promo.
- Update: On hiatus
- Press Release: Angry Robot Launch Titles and Website and Stuff.
- ‘Your Blog is Fabulous!’
- Links and comments: Tuesday 10th March Edition
- Promo: Blood and Ice by Robert Masello (Harvill Secker)
- Promo: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Orion)
- Review: The Ninth Circle by Alex Bell (Gollancz)
- Question: Every new book represents a risk that the publisher and the author take on, discuss?
- Promo: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (William Heinmann)
- Review: Prador Moon by Neal Asher (Tor)
- Cover P0rn: The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
- Apologise: Downtime Yesterday
- Reading Update: March Reading Pile
- Review: The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor (Faber)
- Links and Comments: Sunday 1st March 2009 Edition
- Repost Review: The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett (Del Rey)
- Promo: Matter by Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
- Cover P0rn: Orbus by Neal Asher (Tor)
- Review: Hunter’s Moon by David Devereux (Gollancz)
- Promo: Small Favour by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Promo: The President’s Last Love by Andrev Kurkov (Vintage)
- Review: This Is Not A Game by Walter Jon Williams (Orbit)
- Links: Sunday 22nd February Edition
- Unreview: Twelve by Jasper Kent (Bantam Press)
- Promo: Death at Intervals by Jośe Saramago (Vintage)
- The Gabble and Other Stories by Neal Asher (Tor)
- Update: Reading and books
- Test: New Feeds
- Rant: The Cost of Books
- Links: Saturday 14th February Edition
- News: Stanza to support DRM-Epub files
- Promo: Beat The Reaper by Josh Bazell (William Heinemann)
- UnReview: The Secret War by M. F .Curran (Tor)
- News: Hater Attacks in Washington
- Review: The Act of Roger Ackroyd by Gilbert Adair (Faber)
- News: Updates from PS Publishing
- Promo: THE MURDER FARM by Andrea Maria Schenkel (Quercus)
- Links and Comment: Sunday 8th February Edition
- Aside: Torchwood: Children of Earth Teasier Trailor
- Promo: The Good Thief's Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan (Long Barn Books)
- Housekeeping: Feeds and Themes
- Comment: I'm not doing a meme but
- Promo: Swiftly by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Cover P0rn: The Lord of Silence by Mark Chadbourn (Solaris)
- Promo: Dark Blood by John Meany (Gollancz)
- Thoughts and Links: Monday 2nd February Edition
- Promo: The Rise of the Iron Moon by Stephen Hunt (HarperVoyager)
- Cover P0Rn: Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton (Tor UK)
- Review: Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman (Orbit)
- Promo: The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- Promo: Poe edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
- Promo: The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor (Faber and Faber)
- Promo: Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Review: The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Links: Sunday 25th January Edition
- Promo: Dragonfly Falling by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
- Comment: Guardian's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels Everyone Must Read: The Meme
- Promo: The Ancient by R. A. Salvatore (Tor)
- Promo: The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom (Sphere)
- Promo: Black Magic Woman and Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis (Solaris)
- Sunday Review: Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- News: Sony Reader Sales Figures
- Lists: 2009 Selected Books on Locus Online
- Books Update: Destroyer of Worlds and The Lord of Silence
- Comment: Stanza Counts One Million Downloads
- Sunday Review: The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes (Gollancz)
- Links: Sunday 11 January Edition
- Promo: Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Promo: $1 ebooks from Orbit US
- Comment: Sony Reader PRS-505 UK Edition
- Competition Winner: Tales Of The Perilous Realm
- Mini Review: A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (Corgi)
- More End of the Year Lists
- House-Keeping
- Round-up: The Reads 2008
- Links: Playing Catch-Up
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
- Meme: A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme (it's all John's fault)
- Reviews: Grave Peril, Summer Knight and Death Mask by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
- Competition: Tales Of The Perilous Realm by Tolkien Limited Edition
- First Impressions: Stanza, the iPhone and Pan Macmillan
- Links: Late Sunday Edition
- Cover P0rn: Destroyer of Worlds by Mark Chadbourn
- Promo: Borders.co.uk Book Tower
- Cover P0rn: The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett, Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie, The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss and Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley
- Book P0rn: Backup by Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press), Earth Ascendant by Sean Williams(Orbit), The Clan Corporate by Charlie Stross (Tor), The Secret War and The Hoard of Mhorrer by M. F. W. Curran (MacMillan New Writing)
- Links: Other Places than here catch-up edition
- Personal: No time to read
- Personal: Off to see Hamlet
- Quick Update: Tired Sunday Edition
- Cover P0rn: World’s End – Age of Misrule Book 1 by Mark Chadbourn (US Edition)
- Links: Other Places than here – 4th November Edition
- Review: Shadowmagic by John Lenahan (Friday Fiction)
- Announcement: NaNoWriMo and NextWord.co.uk
- Interview: Brent Weeks (The Way of Sadows, Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows)
- Promo: Twelve by Jasper Kent (Bantam)
- Book POrn: This Weeks Arrivals W/E 26/10
- Comment: The importance of stripping, when it comes to old books
- Review: Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan (Orbit)
- Book P0rn: Absolute Sandman Special (Vertigo)
- Question: How Many Books has X Author Sold?
- News, Links and Promos – Saturday Edition
- Cover P0rn: Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston (Orbit)
- Request: What would you ask?
- Links: Other places than here
- Cover P0rn and Promo: Space Opera by Gollancz
- Cover P0rn: The Accord by Keith Brooke
- Comment: BBC NEWS | Magazine | When Islam meets Bridget Jones
- Currently Reading: Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan (Orbit)
- Request: Book P0rn
- Promo: Super Saving by Amazon.co.uk
- Review: The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett (HarperVoyager)
- Update: Wiped Out
- Catching-Up: Recovering
- Promo: I'm in the corner
- News: Stoker's blood relation resurrects Dracula | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Promo: Small October Selection
- Review: Infoquake by David Louis Edelman (Solaris)
- Update: Coming Soon
- NEWS: Rowling 'makes £5 every second'
- NEWS: Publishers set for Christmas rush
- News: Del Toro to release book trilogy and other vampire books.
- Promo: Caustic Cover Critic
- Promo: Forgotten Friday - The China Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont
- Quick Links: Ad Libs and Alternatives
- Review: Path of Revenge by Russell Kirkpatrick (Orbit)
- Promo: New Blogs, at least new to me.
- Promo: A handful of September releases.
- Competition: Random House eBooks - Win a Sony Reader!
- Promo: Just After Sunset and Duma Key by Stephen King (Hodder)
- Contains Spoilers – Current Read: Path of Revenge
- Comment: Sony Reader
- Promo: Gunpower by Joe Hill PS Publishing
- Review: The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod (Orbit)
- News: New Hitchhiker's author announced
- Tour: Current Reading Pile
- Promo: Jennifer Rardin - Three More Jaz Parks
- Promo: The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, early. The Rise of the Iron Moon, details.
- Review: The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon Green (Gollancz)
- Comment: Ebook readers: it’s a war story - Times Online
- Review: Tainted Blood by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
- Promo: Some dates for my calendar courtesty of Mark Chadbourn
- Comment: Stephenie Meyer's 'Midnight Sun' postponed indefinitely
- Review: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Tor)
- August in Pictures - Monthly Book Round-up
- In other news
- Sale!
- Debut Review: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Gollancz)
- Question: Is one just enough?
- Link: the blueblog: Young Person Alert
- Question: Should all fiction be author originated?
- Review: The Hundred-Towered City by Gary Kilworth (Atom)
- Link: What Do Authors Want from Reviewers?
- Review: The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
- The Book Swede & His Blog: The Book Swede for President!
- BOOKLIST: July’s selection with links and comment
- 21 Books Give or Take
- Currently Reading: Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
- May Release Selected Highlights
- Review: The Burning Man by Mark Chadbourn
- Counting
- Currently Reading: The Burning Man by Mark Chadbourn
- What to read next?
- Debut Review: Scar Night by Alan Campbell
- Testing
- I like Bank Holidays - links and other stuff.
- Some April Releases that Caught my Eye on Amazon.co.uk
- Review: Jack of Ravens by Mark Chadbourn
- Around the blook-o-sphere #4
- Comment: Starting from the beginning
- Comment: Bad Blogger and a Ramble
- Review: No Dominion by Charlie Huston
- Debut Review: The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
- Around the book-o-sphere No.3
- Febuary Releases
- Review: The Hounds of Avalon by Mark Chadbourn
- Reading Update: The Hounds of Avalon
- Still Still Reading
- Debut Review: Debatable Space by Philip Palmer
- Update: Pages added and bits tweaked
- This review from Amazon.co.uk made me laugh
- Still Reading
- News: Solaris Book Acquire New Mark Chadbourn Novel
- Around the book-o-sphere
- Under Pressure (or I need to learn speed reading)
- Debut Review: In the Woods by Tana French
- Simply the Best - Britains Best Writers since 1945?
- Missing from 2007: Jack of Ravens
- Around the book-o-sphere
- Some book news, it's not that exciting
- This Months Reading List
- Missing from 2007 : The Book of Joby
- January Releases
- Debut Review: The Pools by Bethan Roberts
- The 10-20-30 Virus Meme
- Film Review: Resident Evil Extinction
- Review: Dead Men’s Boots by Mike Carey (Orbit)
- Creative Writing
- Facts and Figures
- Film Review: Stardust
- J. K. Rowling Reveals Dumbledore is Gay
- Random Ramblings
- UK Competition: The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
- Debut [not a] Review: The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
- October Reading Pile
- Review: Never the Bride by Paul Magrs
- Review: The Jennifer Morgue
- Funny old week
- Blog Software being updated
- Debut Review: HeartSick by Chelsea Cain
- Borders sells its UK book stores
- Review: Already Dead by Charlie Huston
- Debut Review: Murder Most Fab by Julian Clary
- And that’s not all
- The Competition
- Debut Review: Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
- Future Classics?
- Review: The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton
- Ghost writing
- Review: The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- Booker - the odds reduced. We have a shortlist
- September Reading Pile
- When a gun doesn’t mean what you think it mean’s
- Two disappointments in two weeks
- On the radar this month
- Debut Review: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amerstdam by Chris Ewan
- Anyone want to guess the publisher?
- Review: From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
- Bits and Bobs
- A Susan Hill Moment
- Debut Review: Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
- Laughing
- Debut Review: Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
- The Man Booker is out
- Update - Review Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley
- Perfect Pairings - part two
- Classic Combinations
- I’m what?
- An old reading list
- Debut Review: Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley - Updated 07/08
- An exciting month
- Oh my
- Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
- Reviewer at large
- I’m back
- Harry Hiatus
- Supporting the Sci-Fi mags
- I’ve discovered a new genre of literature
- And while we’re on the subject!
- It’s not proper writing, is it?
- Gushing
- Review: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan)
- The LLB First Novel Winner is…
- Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards 2007
- Review: Resistance by Owen Sheers
- That difficult first novel
- Books are now more events than glued pages
- Rising Stars
- 2007 Long Barn First Novel Competition
- What you find on google
- Review: Rant by Chuck Palahnuik (Jonathan Cape)
- We get the books we deserve
- Waiting
- A plea from McSweeney’s
- A man of many talents
- Some things from the weekend
- Ah, Richard and Judy might not have to worry
- Stand back - She’s gonna blow
- Don’t lose sight of book designers
- Make room on the sofa….
- Is a book if it’s not made from paper?
- Review: Dark Hollow by John Connolly (Hodder)
- Death Ray - Issue Two
- The Other Side of the Fence
- Doctor Who
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- A Dribble of Ink
- AzureScape
- Blood of the Muse
- CRIME SCRAPS
- Dark Fiction Review
- Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews
- Dave's Blog About Writing
- Dazed Rambling
- Euro Crime
- Floor to Ceiling Books
- It's a Crime
- LEC Book Reviews
- Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review
- Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books
- My Favourite Books
- Neth Space
- Of Blog of the Fallen
- Only The Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- PUNKADIDDLE
- Savidge Reads
- Scrying The Fantastic
- Speculative Book Review
- Speculative Fiction Junkie
- Stomping on Yeti
- Temple Library Reviews
- The Book Smugglers
- The Speculative Scotsman
- When Gravity Fails
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Comment: Starting from the beginning
There is a dilema inherent in most genre fiction: Should I start at beginning? Sometimes that choice is easier than others. Lord of the Rings comes in three parts, clearly numbered and in sequence. And once you’ve read them you’re done. A series like Terry Prattchet’s Discworld is more fluid though it helps to read [...]