Weird Fishes is one of the freshest takes on a first contact story I’ve ever read. Two sea creatures travel through the ocean’s depths and shallows, hunting for an answer as to why the currents are slowing. What they find is impossible life. But how do you save an ocean from beings that exist beyond […]
Frasier’s Favourites: The Best Of 2022
It’s been an incredible year for sci-fi books. Don’t believe me? Here’s a list of my favourite stories released over the last twelve months. By the time you get to the end of it, I challenge you to look me in the eye and tell me that 2022 hasn’t been amazing! Disclaimer: This list isn’t […]
Review: Light Years From Home by Mike Chen
Synopsis Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. When Jakob Shao returns to Earth fifteen years after he was abducted by aliens, he’ll have to locate a device which could save not just the world, but the universe. Who better to help him than his estranged family and the two sisters whose […]
Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Synopsis The sound of a violin plays an otherworldly tune in an airship terminal. That same tune is heard in moments across time and space, transporting the listener backwards and forwards to this same point. This single melody connects lives that are separated by centuries. An exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and […]
Review: Tales From Another Dimension by Robbie Sheerin
Synopsis How will HG Wells react when he wakes 200 years in the future on a strange planet, faced with a terrible truth? Two young brothers make a frightening discovery about their neighbours. Do robots secretly want to rule us all? A scientist goes to the extreme in order to change the future of mankind. […]
Review: TimeLock (Book #1 of the TimeLock novella series) by Peter Berk and Howard Berk
Synopsis With crime rampant in the near future, the President authorizes a controversial program: TimeLock, a cellular acceleration process that instantly ages prisoners the total number of years of their sentence. In other words-three strikes and you’re old . . . very old. But what happens if you’re innocent? Falsely convicted of murder, 23-year-old Morgan […]
Review: Stormblood (Book #1 of The Common) by Jeremy Szal
Synopsis Vakov Fukusawa used to be a Reaper: an elite soldier fighting for Harmony against the brutal, invading Harvester empire. Harmony made him elite by injecting him, and thousands of other Reapers, with the DNA of an extinct alien race to make him stronger, faster, and more aggressive. And it worked. At a cost . […]
Author Interview: Kate Sheeran Swed (Crooked V.2 Anthology, edited by Jessie Kwak)
Jessie Kwak is an author with a theory, and it’s this: Sci-fi + crime = an awesome story. To prove her theory, Jessie has put together an anthology of sci-fi crime stories. It’s her second anthology like it, and Crooked Volume 2 features 18 stories by 18 authors, including the likes of Jim Keen, EL […]
Review: The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
Synopsis One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have […]
Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Synopsis “You are the next step in human evolution…” What if you could be capable of more? What if you could think sharper, read faster, memorise better, sleep deeper? For Logan Ramsay, it’s happening. He’s been targeted for an upgrade. The problem is, it wasn’t his choice. His genes have been hacked. To discover why, […]
Review: The Emergent (Book #2 of the Cosmic Series) by Nadia Afifi
Synopsis Neuroscientist Amira Valdez is in danger. Andrew Reznik, the ruthless leader of the fundamentalist Trinity Compound, is using a powerful mind control drug to form an army with a shared consciousness and a single goal — to wage war against the outside world. And he’s determined to capture Amira to study the strange neurological […]
Interview: Emily Inkpen, creator of The Dex Legacy
If you’ve listened to the grimdark, political sci-fi audio drama, The Dex Legacy, then you’ll know it’s awesome. If you haven’t had chance to listen to it, and you wondered what it was like, you can check out my review of season one by clicking right here. But instead of hearing me babble on about […]