“streets ahead etc.” – Flashman on the March, 2005, SAU blog
I have just begun reading George Macdonald Fraser’s “Quartered Safe Out Here” – an author I have not read in some time but enjoyed greatly a decade ago and am…
Category: enthusiastic reviews
No off-switch – review of “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop” by David Adam. TLS 16 July 2014
Although this is explicitly not a self-help book, perhaps the highest praise I can give is that I regularly recommend this in clinical practice and have had very positive feedback…
Review of “Pink Noise”, Leonid Korogoski, SF Site, 2011
This was a stimulating read. To a certain degree, something not unlike what I internally call The Oxford Murders Effect was at play in this review – the context of when I read…
Review of The Sword and Sorcery Anthology, edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman, SF Site, 2012
Inadvertently, the last two posts here have provoked reflections on how I fell out of love with fantasy (and a somewhat lesser extent science fiction) – so this review continues that theme. I…
Review of “The Roberts” by Michael Blumlein from SF Site, 2012
Following my reflections of how I fell out of love with SF/Fantasy as a teenager , here is an example of a sturdy little book review for SF Site of the kind…
Review of “Future Media”, ed. Rick Wilber, SF Site, 2012
I had a fruitful email correspondence with Rick Wilber after this. My dislike of the uncritical celebration fan fic – also evident here – as something radical and innovative rather than derivative…
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees, Alberto Manguel. Nthposition. Early 2005.
The original link is currently broken . I re-read this book this morning. My reading speed may have increased – I read it between Kilkenny and Athy on the train. To tell…
The Oxford Murders Review, Nthposition, 2005
This review is one which has come to occupy a certain place in my mental landscape of being a writer. A review reflects many things, and one is the circumstances of…
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