Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher
a novella. Sergeant Nessilka and a band of the Nineteenth, after heroically charging at an enemy wizard during battle, find themselves transported far from war. On the one hand that is...
11 December 2013
Redshirts by John Scalzi
p>Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience Ensign Dahl has just been assigned to The Intrepid. In many ways this is an honour. The Intrepid is the flagship of the fleet, she...
10 December 2013
A Wrinkle in the skin by John Christopher
AKA The Ragged Edge. Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience In the 1960s a wave of earthquakes brings destruction around the globe. Isolated off the British coast Matthew Cotter thinks that...
9 December 2013
A Natural history of Dragons by Marie Brennan
A memoir by Lady Trent Lady Trent, as all know, is the world’s pre-eminent dragon naturalist. This is her story of how she became that world renowned scientist, how her interest...
2 December 2013
The Ghost Bride by Yangze Choo
Li Lan is seventeen. Her mother died of smallpox when she was very young, her father was so scarred by the disease at the same time that he withdrew from society....
27 November 2013
Thorn by Intisar Khanani
A retelling of The Goose Girl story. Princess Alyrra has not has a happy life. Growing up in fear of her brother and trying to stay on her mother’s good side....
24 November 2013
The Bone Knife by Intisar Khanani
You can get this one free if you’d like to try it. See Khanani’s site for links The Bone Knife is a short story, and to me it felt much more...
17 November 2013
Parasite by Mira Grant
Book 1 in the Parasitology series. Sally Mitchell was in a car crash, suffered brain damage, but just as her family were about to agree to switching off the life-support she...
16 November 2013
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Seth is drowning. He isn’t going to survive, there is no out for him. He drowns. But death is not the end, he wakes up in his childhood home in England....
11 November 2013
Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe
Book 4 in the Eddie LaCrosse series. Eddie LaCrosse has a new client, and it is a surprising one to him. Angelina, the innkeeper and an old friend, suddenly reveals that...
9 November 2013
A more diverse universe blog tour
This year from November 15th to 17th BookLust is hosting The More Diverse Universe blog tour A More Diverse Universe celebrates diversity in speculative fiction by encouraging people to read books...
4 November 2013
The Abominable by Dan Simmons
My final read for this year’s RIP In June of 1924 reports from Everest reveal that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine have vanished, missing, presumed dead in their attempt to reach...
3 November 2013
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