The heresy unfolds The Black Library are literally releasing these books as fast as I can read them. Since I reviewed Horus Rising a few months ago, two more have been released (in the new Siege of Terra series/sub-series) with a third due in March. I really need to pick the pace up! This is the fourth entry in the
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Vampire Science is the second instalment in the BBC series of novels, The Eighth Doctor Adventures, and continues the path of The Doctor and his companion Sam who were first introduced in The Eight Doctors. In true Doctor Who style, there are already several adventures that the pair has embarked upon between the start of this book and where the
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The heresy revealed Here we are again. Galaxy in Flames is book three in the five hundred book long series The Horus Heresy. Ok, five hundred books might be exaggeration, the current count is fifty four, but I’m convinced that they’re being written faster than I’m able to read them. They may as well be infinite. I’m only on book
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The Heresy Takes Root This is the second book in the umpteen books long Horus Heresy series from the Black Library. The review of the first book can be seen here. Following on from Dan Abnett’s excellent opener of Horus Rising was always going to be a challenge and, for the most part, McNeill’s entry in the series lives up
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The seeds of heresy are sown What have I started here? As readers, we are used to embarking on a new series with an ominous mountain of books standing between us and the conclusion of the epic tale we have started. Those people who came late to A Song of Ice and Fire will know the feeling. Those of us
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This book is the first in a series of BBC tie-in novels known as “The 8th Doctor Adventures”, commissioned and published in the interim years between the show ending in 1989 and being relaunched in 2005. The series of books ran alongside another set of releases known as “The Past Doctor Adventures.” For both of these, the clue is in
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Wow. What a book. This wasn’t my first time reading Dune but, dear God, it is still great. I can’t think of many books that operate on the same scale as Frank Herbert’s epic. Galactic conflict, formation of religions, prophetic visions, political machinations. All encompassed in a classic heroic coming-of-age story for the protagonist, Paul Atreides.
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Marlowe Kana is the story of the eponymous hero. Marlowe is a celebrity and a war hero. Well, a celebrity because she’s a war hero and it was all live-streamed. She’s been arrested and tried for treason, despite being the darling of the nation, and is on her way to prison when she’s broken free by some sympathetic terrorists. This
Read moreThe book is written as a frame narrative. The story starts with our protagonist, referred to only as The Time Traveller telling a group of friends about his time-travel device and explains the concept to them. In order to prove it works he activates the device, and the guests are asked to come a week later when they see The
Read morePost-apocalyptic novels seem to be all the rage at the moment and it’s difficult to find one that offers something different. With that in mind, I was pleasantly surprised when reading Basically Frightened. Pugh’s dystopian novel tells the story of Buck, a man in his thirties, who is caught in a traditionally apocalyptic world. The effects of a nightmarish plague
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Zealot Script 