Synopsis Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills […]
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Review: Where The Axe Is Buried by Ray Naylor
Synopsis All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human […]
Review: The Salt Oracle (Book #2 of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest) by Lorraine Wilson
Synopsis It’s been seventeen years since the Internet crashed and left the world broken… Auli lives on the Bellwether, a floating college safe from the conflict of the mainland, where she studies the Oracle — an uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts and provides lost information about the world’s seas. Her peaceful world is shattered […]
Review: Daedalus Is Dead by Seamus Sullivan
Synopsis Daedalus of Crete is many things: the greatest architect in the world; the constructor of the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur; and the grieving father of Icarus, the boy who plunged into the sea as they flew from the grasp of the tyrannical King Minos. Now, Daedalus seeks to reunite with Icarus in the […]
Review: For The Road by Stark Holborn
Synopsis In the desert is a railroad track made from iron and bone, and on the track is a station where the signal is broken and the train never comes… Lost, wounded and alone, Jesse Bartos wanders the wilderness with no memory of how he came to be there. He only knows that he is […]
Review: The Immeasurable Heaven by Caspar Geon
Synopsis The Race for Reality Has Begun. The galaxy of Yokkun’s Depth has been settled since time immemorial. There is only one frontier left, and it’s a one-way journey: to pierce the skin of existence and delve the countless younger universes beneath. Running through these universes is the fabled Well, a fissure formed in the […]
Cover Feature: A River From The Sky (#2 of the Natural Engines duology) by Ai Jiang
Today, the Fantasy Hive released the cover for Ai Jiang’s sequel to A Palace Near The Wind, and it is STUNNING! According to Titan Books, A River From The Sky is a “powerful, beautifully told novella [that] explores the bonds of family, the pain of leaving all you have known behind, and the terrible price […]
Review: The Triggernometry Series by Stark Holborn
Synopsis In a Wild West where mathematics is outlawed, mathematicians are the deadliest gunslingers. Mad Malago Browne just wants a peaceful life, but when she’s forced to take up her protractor, she’ll ride against the Capitol to exact justice and return freedom to the West. Review Let’s get the obvious out of the way, shall […]
Review: Exodus — The Archimedes Engine (Book #1 of the Archimedes Engine Duology) by Peter F. Hamilton
Synopsis Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. They travelled into space on arkships and found a new home. When the first arkship arrived, it signalled for the others to follow. Those from that first ship evolved into Celestials, establishing themselves as rulers over mankind’s new home. Now, as new arkships arrive, people […]
Review: Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Synopsis Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with. A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every load-bearing beam and fine marble tile with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else altogether. But now Deniau’s been dead a […]
Review: The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry
Synopsis In a world where words are power, there is nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing. When something fell from the something tree, all the words went away. And the world changed. Monsters slipped from dreams. The land began to shift and ghosts wandered the world in trances. Only with the rise of the […]
Review: The Bloodstained Doll by John Everson
Synopsis When her Mum dies unexpectedly, Allyson thinks her world has hit rock bottom — until she goes to live with her estranged Uncle Otto at his country mansion in Germany. The gardener and the housekeeper make her feel anything but welcome, and her cousin Martin gives her the creeps. Then, after a child’s empty […]