A Feast of Sorrows by Angela Slatter is a collection of short stories, almost all of them reprints. Long-term followers of this blog will...

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers is a companion novel to Long Way to a Small Angry Planet . It follows characters which appear...

Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold is chronologically the second book in the main Vorkosigan Saga timeline. It's a direct sequel to Sha...

Spelling the Hours edited by Rose Lemberg, subtitle Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology , is not the kind o...

Through 2017 and 2018 Tsana and Katharine are reading The Vorkosigan Saga (in more or less chronological order), starting with Shards of Hon...

Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the first books in the Vorkosigan saga, an epic military science fiction saga spanning...

Vigil by Angela Slatter is the author's debut novel but regular followers of this blog may recall that Slatter is also a much-lauded ...

It's that time of year again when the Aurealis Awards shortlists are announced. And what shortlists they are this year! (I might be bi...

Chatting with my friend Katharine, who also runs a book blog,  Ventureadlaxre , it came out that she'd been meaning to read Lois McMaste...

Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis is a children's novel (the main character is 12ish) about a young dragon that gets ...