For me, post-apocalyptic fiction asks us not just how we would survive, but what would happen to our sense of … More
Category: Science fiction
Guest post: Grant Price, author of By the Feet of Men
What comes first for an author, the genre they want to write or the story they want to tell? Here, … More
My 2018 books of the year – crime fiction
Here are my favourite crime novels of 2018. Tap the book link to read my full review. My first two … More
Book review: Rosewater by Tade Thompson
I don’t read a massive amount of science fiction but Rosewater had an interesting premise. It’s set in a near-future … More
Book review: I Still Dream by James Smythe
In 1997, between homework and phoning her friends and making mix tapes, seventeen-year-old Laura is still struggling to come to … More
Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre
I wrote last year about belatedly discovering Chris Brookmyre and since then I’ve read quite a few of his books. … More
Book review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
You know how in novels we generally get to follow the heroic ones? And by extension to imagine ourselves in … More
Podcast review: LifeAfter by Mac Rogers
LifeAfter comes with great audio drama credentials – the writer, Mac Rogers, also wrote The Message and the director is … More