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I’m a SF Nerd and this is my Genre #Tag
What is your favourite genre? Ha! As if readers stopping by my blog don’t already now, but in case you didn’t, it’s science fiction. And the even broader umbrella: speculative fiction. Who is your favourite author in this genre? One? Only one? You’re kidding me … I’d have to say, as a child, maybe Robert…
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The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann
THE STOCKHOLM OCTAVO by Karen Engelmann is a wonderfully written historical thriller full of intrigue, fans—and yes, I mean those kind of fans. Fans women use to use to fan themselves with, and more, with a deft hand, secretly signal to friends and lovers—hinting at mystery, murder, and a dash of romance. A story that…
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Glory Main by Henry V. O’Neil
GLORY MAIN by Henry V. O’Neil is one of those books, once started, you cannot put down. Classic military science fiction, Glory Main harks back to the likes of Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, Barry B. Longyear Enemy Mine, and David Weber’s Honor Harrington series of novels, and along with well fleshed out characters, clever world-building, is a fast-paced gripping read. Featuring a small…
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Women in SFF
So, today, I just want to share some of my fav female science fiction and fantasy authors with you. Some you might be familiar with, others less so. URSULA K. Le GUIN (SFF) — I think just about everybody who reads SFF knows who she is and just maybe, has read at least one book, or…
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Cold Storage by David Koepp
When Pentagon bio-terror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found…
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A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
As with book one in this series from Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop Of Corruption is an action-packed adventure come murder mystery, and fantastical exploration of a magical world that sees our erstwhile heroes, Dinios Kol and brilliantly eccentric Ana Dolabra, doing what they do best. Sifting through the clues however confounding and tedious a job, to…
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
While I loved that this is a murder mystery set in an OAP (Old Age Pensioners) retirement home. And one giving us a refreshing change of POV by a cast of characters right out of an Agatha Christie novel — though one updated for modern sensibilities — I never really got invested in either the…
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I’m all booked out
Let’s face it, I really did poorly last year with my reads averaging one book per month with a long dry spell over the summer (as I was otherwise occupied). Ending with nothing read in November and December or, I should say, nothing finished. I did start THE LOST by Sarah Beth Durst in (I…
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