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10 Great SFF Books Coming This Fall

By John Folk-Williams

Here I am only half way through my short summer TBR list, and already I have 10 great SFF books lined up for the late summer and fall. This list includes mostly new volumes of some of the heavy hitter series of the last decade as well as a couple of stand-alones from writers who […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: Ada Palmer, Alastair Reynolds, Cat Rambo, Charles Stross, Derek Kunsken, Fonda Lee, Iain M. Banks, James S.A. Corey, Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Shards of Earth

Adrian Tchaikovsky has an immense imagination, and the scope of Shards of Earth gives it vast space. Literally vast since the novel and its strange crew of salvagers moves from one planetary system to another through the terrifying bent space-time depths known as unspace in what seem to be moments. But those moments are pure […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Space Opera, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: alien life forms, altered minds, consciousness, family, galactic empires, symbionts

And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

Premee Mohamed’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight is a tightly written novella about a story of rebellion from oppression focused on the inner struggle from the invisible chains of psychic servitude. And What Can We Offer You Tonight, narrated by Jewel, a courtesan at the high-end House of Bicchieri, begins with one of […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Secondary World Fantasy, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: city, liberation, oppression, poverty, rebellion, revenge

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Notes from the Burning Age

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North is both an exciting story of spies and traitors in a post-apocalyptic Europe and a powerful study of trauma and belief. It is, above all, the story of Ven Marzouki, who survived a traumatic childhood when he witnessed the great burning of the old civilization and the […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: exploitation, faith, nature, post-apocalytic, religion, ruined earth, spies

Taking On My SciFi TBR: Six Upcoming Books I Don’t Want to Miss

By John Folk-Williams

Notes from the Burning Age

My SciFi TBR is getting ridiculously long, so long that its earliest books are in danger of falling off a great cliff into some realm of oblivion. And that’s just the SciFi list. There are all the older reading projects that line my bookshelves and fill my house. The SciFi TBR is mostly on Kindle […]

Filed Under: Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Claire North, David Brin, Lavie Tidhar, Marina Lostetter, Premee Mohammed

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