Latest Reviews:
- Review of ‘The Chrysalis Body’ by N.M. Silveira
The Chrysalis Body is a sci-fi horror piece by N.M Silveira which is either her debut novel or her longest novella to date depending on where you want to put the line. 47,000 words of equal parts creepy plant monsters and self-recrimination with a nice soupçon of anti-capitalism and gender fuckery. A nice page-turner that… - SPSFC5 Award Reading List (Scout Phase)
A thing I’ve done a few times now that is still very exciting to me that I get to do, is be a reader/judge for various SFF-based book awards. One of those, which I’ve been working on for a few months now, is the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition, running its 5th year of the award,… - Review of ‘Machines of Consent’ by Sophia Turner
Machines of Consent is the debut novel of Kiwi author Sophia Turner, and brings us an excellent combination of cyberpunk and sexytimes. Starring two transfem leads, with all the attendant joy, trauma, hope, despair, and love that goes along with that, Turner’s debut shows a lot of quality, a lot of promise, and hopefully presages… - Review of “Lord of the Last Heartbeat” by May Peterson
Lord of the Last Heartbeat is the debut novel from writer, essayist and editor May Peterson and the first in the The Sacred Dark series. A remarkable blending of fantasy, paranormal romance, history and mystery, all with great care applied to the handling and portrayal of trauma and queer themes in a story that is…
Latest Articles:
- 2025 Reading ListAnother year, another failed attempt to start doing reviews again. I did have a great new experience this year and that has been being a judge/reader for several genre fiction book awards! A decent number of entries in this list were read for the “Small Spec Book Awards” (SSBA) and ongoing into next year, the…
- 2024 Reading ListAnother year down, another great list of excellent books. A few things stand out for me relative to previous years. I made an exception to my “series just go together” rule for Gideon/Harrow/Nona the Ninth. I keep series together generally because the quality of books in a series is usually consistent enough that it doesn’t…
- 2023 Reading ListThanks to a new job that includes a lovely 3 hours of commuting to the office (90 minutes each way) I not only seriously out-read 2022, I set a new record for total books in a year since I started counting a decade or more ago. Still obviously very Kindle Unlimited heavy as evidenced by…
- 2022 Reading List2022 started off slow because I did end up deciding to do that re-read of Wheel of Time in order to produce an article series about both the books and the Amazon show‘s season 1, but then picked up in large part to this being the year of reading Kindle Unlimitedly, as evidenced by the…