The Sound of Cosmic Crime

 The March 2023 edition of Cosmic Crime stories is out, and includes a reprint of m alien murder mystery story The Sound of Death.

Book Review: Flux by Jinwoo Chong

There’s a fascinating juxtaposition of high-tech thriller and noir detective tale in Jinwoo Chong’s debut novel Flux. Three strands of the tale are woven together with references to the hard-boiled 80s detective show Raider, whose iconic storylines are seemingly reflected in the events of the novel’s protagonists Bo, Brandon and Blue.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

This is my 324th review, and my last for the foreseeable future. Suffering from reviewing fatigue, I've decided to take a break.

Book Review: A Candle for Malka by Louise Carey

I enjoyed Louise Carey’s debut solo novel Inscape a year or two back, a sparkling mix of cyberpunk, espionage and post-apocalyptic social stratification. This new novella, A Candle for Malka is more of a hard-SF, near-space corporate saga which I imagined from reading the blurb was going to have an Alien vibe. I was intrigued to see whether the brightness and freshness of Inscape would be reflected in this book.

Read the rest of my review in ParSec issue #6.

Greek Response

 My short story In Response to Your Reader, first published last year in Nature magazine, has been accepted by Greek magazine Ef-Zin, to be published later this year. This will be the first language other than English for this story. I shall now send it off to some other international markets...

In Response to a Request

Long-running fanzine Concatenation has an arrangement with Nature magazine to reprint their favourite three stories of the year on their website. I'm rather thrilled to have been asked if my story In Response to Your Reader can be among them. It will be appearing there some time later this year.

Book Review: Karma of the Sun by Brandon Ying Kit Boey

When nuclear war destroys most of the planet, the Tibetan plateau is spared, sheltered by surrounding mountain ranges. A century later, it has become a place of superstition and legend, of bandits and warlords and, still eking out a living, poor villagers living their traditional lives.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Five Ways to a Spanish Reprint

 A reprint of the Spanish translation of my story Five Ways to Accidentally Save the Earth from Alien Conquest is included in the year 10 anthology of Cuentos para Algernon.

That's the sixth appearance for this story in a year.

Book Review: Neom by Lavie Tidhar

Set in the world of Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station novel, Neom shares the same rich and varied history, multiple cultures, traditions and strange exotic secrets. It also emulates the measured and mesmeric quality of prose that first captures readers with the original Central Station stories that appeared in Interzone magazine.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Righteous Hungarian Indignation

 The Hungarian translation of my story The Righteous Indignation of the Naked Mole Rat is out in issue #392 of Galaktika magazine. 

This is my ninth story in this magazine, and the fifth language for this story.

Book Review: Redspace Rising by Brian Trent

Redspace Rising is Brian Trent’s action-packed SF thriller brought to us by relative newcomers Flame Tree Press. I was surprised to discover on opening the cover, that this book is the second in the Ten Thousand Thunders series, following on from Brian Trent’s previous novel Ten Thousand Thunders.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Review #320.