A Desolation Called Peace is the sequel to the immensely satisfying A Memory Called Empire. How I describe the series to other people is basically diplomatic science fiction. Continue reading
Category Archives: Book reviews
Book review: The Darkening Age
This felt very much like the companion to Battling the Gods, but rather than talking about non-religious beliefs it is about the crushing wave of Christian thought drowning out pagan beliefs Continue reading
Book Review: Viking Britain – A History
What I appreciated from a historian’s point of view is where he pointed out “we don’t really know” or where there were competing historical interpretations Continue reading
Book review: Monstrous Design
The sequel finds the Battalion Des Morts split up, half in England and half in France, trying to undermine their enemies and rescue Olympe. Continue reading
Book review: Axiom’s End
She, through a series of events, ends of the translator to Ampersand, an alien who is looking for a group of aliens who ended up on Earth 40 years previously. Continue reading
Book review: Fugitive Telemetry
The latest instalment in the Murderbot Diaries. Continue reading
Book review: The Helm of Midnight
The previous books I’ve read by Marina Lostetter were science fiction, so was intrigued by her fantasy novel. I had high hopes for The Helm of Midnight as the Noumenon series was so richly crafted and I enjoyed the universe so much. Continue reading
Book review: One billion years to the end of the world
Essentially, there are a bunch of scientists who are all either being bribed or threatened, in very different ways, to stop the work they’re doing. Eventually they all get together and are trying to thrash out what could be going on. Is it a super advanced civilisation, is it coincidence, is it something else? Continue reading
Book review: The galaxy, an the ground within
For the uninitiated, this is the final book in the Wayfarers series, a time in the future where there is a galactic community, with all their interesting histories and complications. Continue reading
Once and Future
So for those of you that don’t know, this novel was a retelling of the Arthurian legends, but through the lens of the 42nd reincarnation of Arthur. Continue reading
