I just went back and re-read my review of Wildthyme on Top before setting out to write this. I remembered that short story collection fondly but, on re-reading the review, I discover that I picked out two really good stories and thought the rest were fine but all a bit samey, especially since most of them were literary pastiches of one kind or ( Read more... )

I'm fairly sure I haven't attended a Dr Who convention in about 20 years, but when a convention was announced dedicated to the Doctor Who novels, which was going to take place in B's favourite Manchester pub, I didn't feel I had much excuse not to go.

( Novelcon, including a half-remembered Primeval anecdote in the sixth paragraph )

I know I keep saying I'm going to stop buying the Bernice Summerfield books but they keep putting ones out with strong author line ups: in this case Mags L Halliday, Kelly Hale and Philip Purser-Hallard. I remain unconvinced by the three novella format. I would have welcomed more depth and complexity to each of the three stories here. But I ( Read more... )

I've been scratching my head over how to cover Time and Relative Dissertations in Space in more detail, since I wanted to talk about several of the essays but didn't really want to make 18 more posts about it. I've opted for discussing each of its four parts in turn. These are not so much reviews as comments and thoughts I had while reading the ( Read more... )

bunn asked about the Faction Paradox novels in a reply to my last post and my comment in return was too long so I'm putting it here as a new post

( Notes on the Faction Paradox (and related) Novels )