It’s another of those I-have-no-idea-how-this-got-on-my-TBR-pile books. I don’t recall hearing of Beverley Farmer before but I read it anyway as I love Australian books and I love short stories. These stories are all about love in various guises. There’s no real romance in here, the romance between two people who ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
FlashSpec Volume two edited by Neil Cladingboel I bought this some time ago at a convention, it’s one of those really special tomes I’ve been saving, not for a rainy day, but for when I need a change. All I can say is that I should have read it earlier! ...
If you’ve been paying attention you will have read my gushing review of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol 8 edited by Jonathan Strahan. I’m not certain gushing quite covers my feelings on this book. I was delighted when the editor agreed to answer a few ...
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 8edited by Jonathan Strahan Thought I’d get the photo out of the way before I start gushing. I was sent this book by Solaris Publishing with the expectation I would scribble a few words about it, they never expected me to ...
I am the Queen, you’ve read my story to your children and many of them have pretended to sleep for a year only to have the Prince wake them up. This is a different story but it still involves the dwarfs. The dwarfs were good to me, they looked after ...
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mazagine is pulp fiction at it’s best. It takes submissions from all sorts of people across Australia and New Zealand and only publishes the good ones. I got involved with ASIM within the first dozen or so issues and then managed to acquire most of the rest, ...
This is the book that caused so much consternation when I used it for Teaser Tuesday. It’s an anthology of Australian fantasy, science fiction and horror. This is the final issue and if it’s anything to go by the rest of them must have been absolutely fantastic. It is a ...