Tag Archives: SF

What I Read On My Holiday – 2026

Posted on 11/02/2026 by Roseanna

Reading holiday has once again been and gone in triumph. This year, we booked a cottage in the middle of nowhere in Wales and it was more precipitously in the middle of nowhere than we necessarily bargained for. However, after … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Detective/Mystery, Else, Fantasy, Literary, Poetry, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Things to read if you loved Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

Posted on 26/10/2025 by Roseanna

First up, congrats on your amazing taste in books! High five. But alas, assuming you have already burned through Fellman’s back catalogue (if you haven’t, why not, fix that, and then come flail at me about The Breath of the … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Awesome, Not A Review | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

When There Are Wolves Again – E. J. Swift

Posted on 08/10/2025 by Roseanna

The new novel from the author of The Coral Bones, When There Are Wolves Again follows two women in Britain from the present, stretching out across the years into the future of the late 21st century. One of the women … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Awesome, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Six from Six – First Half of 2025

Posted on 29/06/2025 by Roseanna

The halfway point of 2025 approaches! Of the forty-nine books I’ve read in 2025 so far, there have been seven 5 star reads – this is, for me, unusual (though it does make it easier to cut down for a … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Fantasy, Not A Review, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hugo Novella Roundup

Posted on 16/06/2025 by Roseanna

I’m not going to split out my Hugo Novella ballot discussion this year into separate posts, but handle it all as one. Part of that is because I’ve already reviewed several of them, another part because I cannot read one … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Alien Clay – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Posted on 07/06/2025 by Roseanna

The sixth and final Hugo nominee for Best Novel, and I’ve saved… if not the best, then certainly one of the contenders for last. It’s a thoughtful, dark, critical and sometimes genuinely funny take on biology, politics and the futility … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Γνῶθι σεαυτόματον, or rather, don’t – Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Posted on 16/05/2025 by Roseanna

What is the appeal of a character who does not know themself? There’s clearly something in it, in seeing emotions in someone resolutely determined they don’t have them – it’s a character arc I’ve seen plenty of in a variety … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

A Path Through the Landscape: My Own Route Through Science Fiction

Posted on 27/04/2025 by Roseanna

I recently did a review for Nerds of a Feather of Paul Kincaid’s new collection, Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction. In the collection, much is made of the multiplicity of the field, its fuzzy boundaries and its many … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Else, Not A Review, Science Fiction | Tagged , , | 13 Comments

The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia

Posted on 06/04/2025 by Roseanna

So… suspension of disbelief. It’s tricky, right? And, of course, intensely personal. For many, an incorrect historical detail or the use of an unexpected name can make or break their immersion within a story. Sometimes, this is fair enough – … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Detective/Mystery, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Private Rites – Julia Armfield

Posted on 29/12/2024 by Roseanna

My overwhelming impression of this book is rain. Constant, undramatic, pervasive, it haunts the margins of the story so effectively that it has overwhelmed my memory of it, forming a damp sheen over the foregrounded aspects of the story. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Awesome, Horror, Literary, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment