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Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn This book was published in 1992 and has been sitting in my reading pile for many years, but when I accidentally knocked it out of that pile I decided that in recompense I might as well read it. The plot of Ishmaelis certainly original. The story is told by a narrator...

Storm Front, by Jim Butcher This is the first of The Dresden Files series, featuring a wizard (Harry Dresden) openly practising in present-day Chicago, in an alternative world in which it is accepted (rather reluctantly and with varying degrees of scepticism) that wizardry exists. He makes his...

Behold! The eldritch other in all its cosmic horror, brought to you thru Lovecraftian prose and a cascade of increasingly dismal and slightly unbalanced vignettes. This comprehensive collection of Lovecraft stories focuses on the Cthulhu mythos. There are early and later tales and the book...

What are some of your favourite genre novels (inc. trilogies or series)? Either science fiction or fantasy or something other. Maybe a quick note as to why you like them so much? In science fiction, a few of my favourites are: Iain M. Banks -- Excession (love all of Banks' works) Banks is my...

Has anyone on here read A.G. Riddle's book, The Departure? It got self-published on Amazon and was later picked up by Harper Collins. Pretty crazy. The book's about plane crash survivors who find themselves in a different world. It's a work of speculative fiction that reminds me a lot of Lost...

Roads Not Taken, edited by Gardner Dozois and Stanley Schmidt Another long-standing member of my reading pile! This anthology, published in 1998, consists of alternate history stories which appeared in the magazines Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact, whose editors...

Originally published: August 1938 Author: John W. Campbell Adaptations: The Thing (2011) Publisher: Analog Science Fiction and Fact Genres: Science Fiction Awards: Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr., written under the pen...

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For centuries it waited in the darkness, cast into the coldness of space. It listened in the hope of finding others who shared its twisted beliefs, until eventually it heard a voice in the void. A voice of hate. A voice of evil. The voice of the Third Reich. Then the trap was prepared...

Blackout, & All Clear, by Connie Willis I have had these books in my reading pile for some years, but until now have been put off from tackling them by their massive size. Don’t be fooled by the different titles; they are not separate novels, but constitute one continuous story some 1,500 pages...

A right good romp on the Disc, full of madcap adventure and plenty of wonderment (plus a dash of introspection for good measure)! This is the first book of Pratchett’s long-running Discworld series, and the first gateway into all things Disc (yet it is not the only entry point). The story is...

Pavane by Keith Roberts In my recent review of The Owl Service by Alan Garner, I mentioned that the atmosphere created in the story reminded me of some of Robert Holdstock's work, and also (if a long-distant memory served me correctly) Pavane by Keith Roberts. Not having read this for some...

Veiled by Benedict Jacka This is the sixth novel in Jacka's highly entertaining Alex Verus series, about practitioners of genuine magic in present-day London. Reviews of the earlier five are on this blog and, if you are new to this series, it is best to start at the beginning with Fated because...

World War Z by Max Brooks (Audio Book) - 6 hrs.mp4 The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years traveled across the United States of America and...

The Tower By Esper Repsesper (2014) (Audio Book) - 41 min.mp4 A tale of a wizards harrowing journey into a mythical realm driven by his obsession to find powers from beyond the world. by zzwildbillzz duration: 0:40:32 size: 62.8mb resolution: 1280x720 posted: 12 months ago bitrate: 26 kb/s...

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (Audio Book) - 8 hrs.mp4 In this pulse-quickening novel Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men -...

The Secret Of The Ninth Planet by Donald Wollheim (Audio Book) - 5.5 hrs.mp4 An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun possible causing the sun to nova within two years. Burl Denning a high school student is the only person who has the...

The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster (2014) (Audio Book) Sci-Fi - 2.75 hrs.avi When the twenty-first century drew to a close the whole human race began to revert to conditions closely approximating savagery. The low-lands were unbearable. Thick jungles of rank growth covered the ground. The air...

The Invisible Man by H.g. Wells (Audio Book with Synchronized Text) - 4.6 hrs.mp4 The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946) it tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and uses it on...

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Audio Book) - 2.8 hrs.mp4 This is the first part of the "Forever War" series however it can be read as a standalone.The Earths leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sanddespite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable...