There is a brief interview with Steph Swainston in the latest Interzone which inspired this true or false poll:

Poll This Is The Modern World

Jayaprakash Satyamurthy has an interesting post about the way fantasy is reviewed:However, I am getting a little tired of people lauding these books simply for not offering up Tolkienesque tropes. Many of the reviews I've read of Steph Swainston's The Year of Our War, for instance, seem to content themselves with patting Swainston on the back for ( Read more... )

I have been strangely prolific on the review front recently. Here's the round-up:

The Year Of Our War by Steph Swainston
Faces Of Mist And Flame by Jon George
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Succumbed to Waterstone's again today: went in for Oryx And Crake, saw it was on 3 for 2, saw Perfume by Patrick Suskind was also in the offer and then it was ( Read more... )

Well, my no book buying resolution is well and truely broken. I nipped into Waterstone's at lunchtime yesterday and as I had hoped/expected they had added Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines to their award winning children's books table and hence their 3 for 2 offer. It is a devillishly good 3 for 2; award winning books of the past twenty odd years. I ( Read more... )