FATHOMFOLK by Eliza Chan

FATHOMFOLK Eliza Chan (elizachan.co.uk) Orbit (www.orbitbooks.net) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The city of Tiankawi is a city of many facets. Partially-flooded, the parts above water are a testament to human ingenuity, with the humans living in shining towers far above the surface of the polluted water. Closer to the surface, […]

PERILOUS TIMES by Thomas D Lee

PERILOUS TIMES Thomas D Lee (thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com) Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Fabled Knight of the Round Table Sir Kay has been dead for sixteen hundred years. Well, mostly. Thanks to Merlin’s magic Kay and his fellow knights have been buried around the realm in sites guarded by sacred trees. […]

INFINITY GATE by M. R. Carey

INFINITY GATE M. R. Carey Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The world is dying, a climate catastrophe doing its best to wipe all vestiges of humanity from the planet. Hadiz Tambuwal is the last person standing at Lagos’ Campus Cross research facility. At the last possible moment, and with […]

THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES by Alex Jennings

THE BALLAD OF PERILOUS GRAVES Alex Jennings (alexjennings.net) Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £8.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Perilous “Perry” Graves is a ten-year-old boy who lives off Jackson Avenue in the west of Nola with his extended family. School is out for summer and Perry wants nothing more than to spend it adventuring […]

THE FALL OF KOLI by M. R. Carey

THE FALL OF KOLI (The Rampart Trilogy, Book 3) M. R. Carey Orbit Books (orbitbooks.net) £9.99 And so Koli Faceless – who we’ve known by many names over the course of his tale: Woodsmith, Rampart, Witless – and his friends come to the source of the broadcast claiming to be the Sword of Albion. From […]

SPEED OF DARK by Elizabeth Moon

SPEED OF DARK Elizabeth Moon (www.elizabethmoon.com) Orbit (www.orbitbooks.net) £8.99 In a not-too-distant future, pharmaceutical companies have eliminated the majority of illnesses and disabilities that plague the human race. Lou Arrendale is autistic, one of a small number remaining: Lou was born too early for the procedure that can cure autism in babies. Along with a […]

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula Le Guin

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS Ursula Le Guin (www.ursulakleguin.com) Orbit (www.orbitbooks.net) £7.99 The third title in the Hodderscape Review Project was Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, the first book in her Merlin Trilogy. Unfortunately, I was unable to finish it, so you won’t find a review here. The fourth title brings the series back to […]