Time Salvager is another SF novel that has been massively hyped before it even hit shelves. The book is due to publish on July 7th but has already been optioned for a film adaptation with Michael Bay signed on to ...
Read More »Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Sometimes I worry that my critic brain has superseded all else. Books, films, TV shows that everyone else loves I scratch my head and wonder what I’m missing. I’m poking holes in all of them, asking ‘but why?’ over and ...
Read More »Lullaby Girl by Aly Sidgwick
With Mental Health Awareness Week last week in the UK, mental health issues are a hot topic. Aly Sidgwick’s debut novel will tap into this zeitgeist perfectly, helping to dispel some of the myths around mental illness. The novel pulls ...
Read More »Day Shift by Charlaine Harris: Mystery entirely devoid of intrigue
Since 1981, Charlaine Harris has published almost 40 novels. She is most well known for her Southern Vampire Mystery Series featuring Sookie Stackhouse, on which the HBO series True Blood was based. She has created five other series, all of ...
Read More »Joan D Vinge’s The Snow Queen: Beating us over the head with dichotomy
Before I became a regular reader of the Tor.com blog, I had never heard of D Vinge’s novel The Snow Queen. More and more often I found it cropping up in articles I was reading on the site, often praised ...
Read More »Stardust: Novel and film
In 2007, long before I had read any Neil Gaiman, my university flat mate dragged me along to see a film called Stardust. She had nothing but praise for the novel and couldn’t wait to see the film. I remember ...
Read More »Nunslinger: They have numbered all my bones
Did you get a wad of cash for Christmas? Any gift vouchers for book stores? Good news is, I know exactly what you need to buy with that money. Doesn’t a story about a nun with a gun sound amazing? ...
Read More »221b: Bringing episodic mysteries to an ebook reader near you
Brendon Connelly’s background is deeply rooted in film and television as both a creator and commentator of the medium. Connelly has written and directed film, as well as been a prolific reviewer and commentator – writing for various websites as ...
Read More »The Miriam Black book series: Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?
One of my favourite writing advisors of all time is Chuck Wendig. He tells it like it is – no sugar coating, no pointless ego stroking, just a real get up and do it attitude. But as much as I ...
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