Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

George R. R. Martin is a well-established writer. He isn’t known for writing Fantasy though so I was curious about this book. Keeping with longstanding fantasy tradition it’s a big book and it’s the first part of a series. When I bought it I was under the impression that it was going to be a trilogy. Turns out that its actually going to be 6 books! If they’re all this…

This is an excellent book.

Hmm, perhaps thats a little too short for a review…

This is the first Ken MacLeod book I’ve read, but it certainly won’t be the last. “The Cassini Division” is a sequel of sorts to his previous book “The Stone Canal”. That is to say its set in the same universe (err parallel universe… sort of) and features some of the characters from the previous book.

Buy The…

This is the third Ken MacLeod book I’ve read and the first one he wrote. I read the back to front for no obvious reason. The previous two which I read were both awarded 10 out of 10, so this has a high standard to live up to…

Buy The Star Fraction

This doesn’t read like a first novel in any way. It’s vibrant, well written and gripping. The story is more…

This is the second Ken MacLeod book I’ve read. Its part of a sequence of books, all of which share the same universe and explore certain political ideas. The Stone Canal also has particularly close links with the follow up book The Cassini Division (which I read first just to be difficult) in that the events in this book are referred to in The Cassini Division.

The central…

This is a very BIG story. I don’t just mean this (1225 page) book either since its part one of The Night’s Dawn Trilogy. I don’t just mean the trilogy is big either. The scope of the story is huge. The number of characters involved is large and the ideas aren’t exactly small either.

Its hard to summarise a book of this size and nature. There are a…