“The Empire, because of its unwieldy size and corrupt bureaucracy, relies on a single model of starfighter to fulfill nearly all its needs. Their single-mindedness is their weakness.
A novelist whose friends included Dorothy L Sayers and Virginia Woolf, Muriel Jaeger’s name is not so well known or celebrated, possibly because her output was less prolific
It’s been four years since Joe Abercrombie last published a novel, Half a War, the concluding volume of his Shattered Sea trilogy, and other than the short story
A volatile and potent concoction, a distillation of the elements of two of the key genres of imaginative fiction, as part of the British Library’s Tales of the
“Classic tales of creatures from beyond” is the promise made by editor Mike Ashley in the latest collection in the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library,
Tomas Piety has acquired a great deal alongside the position he has established as leader of the Pious Men of Ellingburg: a reputation as a businessman, though his
The streets of Edinburgh,1849, full of life and death, of poverty and possibility; the use of chloroform as anaesthetic as pioneered by Doctor James Young Simpson has made
The latest volume in the Science Fiction Classics range of the British Library edited by Mike Ashley, Menace of the Machine gathers fourteen stories originally published between 1894
“A gift from the gods,” Lae Fetlanger called him, the baby she found abandoned in night; raising him as her own, she named the child Lannigon, but Lae’s
The past casts a shadow which is never gone, even as a high speed train slips through the night towards Belgium, aboard it the disgraced former Belgian Special
