James Smythe was born in London and now lives in West Sussex. Since receiving a PhD from Cardiff University, he has worked as both a Creative Writing teacher and as a [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: An appealing, character-driven adventure in a future history that is both fun and inventive. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Nineteen year-old Ellie Quin spends [...]
Bradley Beaulieu has emailed us the cover image for his latest, The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, Book 3 of the Lays of Anuskaya series. The artist is Aaron J. Riley. Here is [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: A unique and interesting resource when looking at history. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Science Fiction tends to be closely linked with contemporary history in [...]
Aaron Rosenberg is a prolific novelist and roleplaying game designer. His credits run from White Wolf Roleplaying Games such as Exalted and Mage to the Pete’s and Penny’s [...]
Erin M. Evans has a degree in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, but knowing that much about anthropods led her to stick it in box and become a writer and [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: A dark, gripping character novel. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Miriam Black knows how and when you’re going to die, just by a simple touch. When she meets [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: A somewhat entertaining, but incoherent novel. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Fifteen years after the Spacer War, Cesar Vaquero returns to his home station of [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: A long conflict between a great kingdom and a small, isolated people is the template and background for a story of love, family and duty. MY RATING: MY REVIEW [...]
Into the Black: Reclaiming Dystopian Fiction There’s not doubt about it: Dystopian fiction is a hot literary commodity. In fact, dystopian literature seems to have [...]
Courtesy of Harper Voyager, SF Signal has 5 trade paperback copies of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities to give away to 5 lucky [...]
SYNOPSIS: From an alternate history with both a moonbase and a global thermonuclear war, a band of stranded astronauts seek a new parallel earth to escape to. MY RATING: MY [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: A fantastic, character-driven story of alien contact. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Years after Earth is visited by an alien presence, individuals known as [...]
L.S. Bassen is a finalist for 2011 Flannery O’Connor Award; Fiction Editor for Prick of the Spindle. Reader for Electric Literature, won the 2009 APP Drama Prize & a [...]
I have a new post up over on the Kirkus Review site looking at Stephen King’s The Dark Tower-The Gunslinger: The Journey Begins, Graphic Novel from Marvel Comics. The [...]
I have been planning this series with John DeNardo for some time—taking the opportunity to boost the signal for friends and fellow SFF authors from Australia and New [...]
SYNOPSIS: The cryogentically frozen pilot of a slower than light attempt to reach the stars awakens in a startling future more than 12 millennia hence. MY RATING: MY REVIEW [...]
Gail Z. Martin, author of The Fallen Kings Cycle series (The Sworn and The Dread), unveils her sneak peek of Ice Forged, Book One in The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, coming from [...]
SYNOPSIS: Mortally wounded, Gideon Long stumbles upon a mysterious pool of water that grants him the power of immortality. Gideon’s would be murderer, Warren Groves, [...]
In episode 132 of the Hugo Nominated SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks our irregulars to weigh in on: Book Spoilers – How Long is Too Long? Do some people take [...]