More Per Ardua than Ad Astra: Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora
Vorrh (Huh!) - what is it good for?
In praise of gateway novels - A Closed And Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
This review removed for non-compliance with consensus reality - Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit
Novel needs director's cut - Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Pulp fiction meets Sid Meier's Civilisation - Eric Flint's 1632
Class Struggle - Koushun Takami's Battle Royale
Anger is an energy - N K Jemisin's The Fifth Season
Space is the worst frontier, part 2 - Neil Stephenson's Seveneves
YA goes gothic - Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree
Cute title, sad book - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Alyssa Wong creeps me out
Space is the worst frontier - Andy Weir's The Martian
Grimdark-tagnan - Sebastian de Castell's Traitor's Blade
In the Lovecraftian mode but not the mood - Stephen King's Revival
William Gibson's Spook Country
No prizes for being ahead of its time - John Varley's The Ophiuchi Hotline
Abraham Lincoln meets Thomas Covenant
Science-fiction as mind bomb
Science-fiction needs you - join me as a Hugo Awards voter
How America ate its young - Stephen King's The Long Walk
Superheroes on a pedestal - Grant Morrison's Supergods
Stairways to Heaven - Robert Jackson Bennett's City Of Stairs
Reviewing the Hugo 2015 nominees
- Intro: peeling back the polemic to ask the big questions
- Kevin J Anderson's The Dark Between The Stars: control, not mastery
- Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor: a big hug from the golden age of high fantasy
- Jim Butcher's Skin Game: an unapologetic fantasy blockbuster
- Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem: hard science, hot mess
- Quick review of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword, plus Best Novel conclusions
- Now that's what I call kinda okay: the short fiction nominations
- My Hugo ballot
Amber-guity - Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber
Halfway between Hyberborea and the Haight - Michael Moorcock's Corum
Reviews of Kameron Hurley's Infidel and Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction
Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human
Well done Ancillary Justice! Some thoughts on the best novel Hugo
Foundation: Isaac Asimov hacks the future!
Missing the wood for the trees with Voltaire (review of Ian Davidson biography)
A woman's world, but faute de mieux: God's War by Kameron Hurley
A Case Of Conscience and category failure (review of the James Blish classic SF novel)
At least as reactionary as it is radical: Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron
Oh, Bob Heinlein, No! The many problems of the Number Of The Beast part one (and part two)
March mission: no book left unread on my shelves
Pulp with depth: Roger Zelazny's This Immortal
Feels Like I'm Fixin' To Die, Captain: John Scalzi's Redshirts
The Wise Man's Fear: giving Patrick Rothfuss the benefit of the doubt
Three Silmarils to rule them all (guest review by Matt Sellwood)
My young art prevail: Dylan Maconis' Bite Me
If you were in my movie: Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
Cherie Priest's Boneshaker
Why you should read some William Burroughs
Lord Valentine's Castle - challenging the white spaceman's burden
The Spirit Level will gird your bleeding heart in math
Michael Moorcock's The Final Programme: teetering on the brink of the metrosexual apocalypse
Romantics and Replicants: Jane Austen and Roy Batty
Cthulhukitsch
Callaghan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson and down-home SF group therapy
Clark Ashton Smith: all horror is speakable
The Hobbit: better than LOTR?
The Hobbit and the Environmental Movement
Sheri Tepper - The Waters Rising
Early Tanith Lee reviewed: like Anais Nin ghosting Robert E Howard
David Eddings' Pawn of Prophecy, or How To Become A Wish Fulfillment Demigod in Five Books
Strange fascination with David Eddings Pt 2
The hipster Harry Potter - review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Tanu dig it? Julian May's Many Coloured Land and The Golden Torc reviewed
Stephen Donaldson's Covenant Chronicles - The most important failure in modern fantasy fiction Pts 1-4
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Part 2 -
Part 3
Part 4
Ten songs which are also great fantasy short stories
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Iain M Banks at Birmingham Library
The Squids Are Alright: China Mieville - Kraken
Kieran Gillan and Jamie McKelvie - Phonogram: Rue Britannia
Charles Stross - The Fuller Memorandum
Various reviews: Mary Gentle, Tom Sharpe, Voltaire and Charles Stross
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