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Taking on My Fantasy TBR – Assassin’s Apprentice and The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

By John Folk-Williams

The Book That Wouldn't Burn

With ever less time for blogging due to various physical annoyances, I’m limited in what I can contribute to Wyrd & Wonder this time around and so decided to offer an overview of two books in my stretchable comfort zone. I may return to one or both of these for fuller discussion at some point, […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Taking on My SFF TBR, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: assassin, city, human emotion, library, Mark Lawrence, monsters, power, psychic powers, Robin Hobb

10 Novels for My SFF TBR – Summer Edition

By John Folk-Williams

Embertide

Taking on the SFF TBR is like climbing a mountain that keeps growing and expanding as you dig in and inch upward. It’s a little like the problem Sisyphus had with his boulder, but instead of doing the same thing over and over, the path before you keeps changing. It’s full of interesting byways, occasional […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: Geetha Krishnan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jadie Jang, Jonathan Nevair, Liz Williams, Olga Ravn, Scott Hawkins, T.A. Bruno, Tasha Suri, Xia Jia

Lining Up My Vintage SciFi Month and the Winter TBR

By John Folk-Williams

Vintage SciFi Month - The Dispossessed

Vintage SciFi Month for 2022 is coming up fast, and I wanted to set out my planned reviews for this event. The great thing about this is its simplicity. You just use the tag #VintageSciFiMonth on Twitter or your blog or Instagram to post anything of interest about science fiction written before your birth year […]

Filed Under: Taking on My SFF TBR, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: Gareth L. Powell, Isaac Asimov, James S.A. Corey, Nnedi Okorafor, Philip K. Dick, Tochi Onyebuchi, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yevgeny Zamyatin

Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen (Part 2 of The Graven) – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen

Essa Hansen’s Azura Ghost, second book in The Graven series, marks an enormous step up from her already impressive debut, Nophek Gloss. This new story takes us deeper into the mysterious multiverse of the Graven, an ancient race of vast accomplishments that disappeared ages ago but left numerous traces both in architectural and technological remnants […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: adventure, alien life forms, consciousness, Essa Hansen, family, memory, multiverse, power, space opera, transcendence

Taking on my SciFi TBR – Summer Wrap-Up

By John Folk-Williams

The Bone Ship's Wake

Well, I worked through this summer’s scifi TBR, adding a few more titles along the way, but not all of the novels and stories were quite right for me. I’ve already reviewed the four I really loved – books that changed me in some way. Those are Notes from the Burning Age, And What Can […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: adventure, David Brin, dragons, fantasy, Fonda Lee, qntm, rebirth, RJ Barker, robots, singularity, The Tide Child Trilogy

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

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