Monthly Archives: November 2019

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #24:- STONE OF LIGHT: NEFER THE SILENT Christian Jacq Simon & Schuster pb, 390pp, £10 Set in ancient Egypt at the end of the reign of Ramses the Great, the story centres on … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #22:- THE PLATO PAPERS Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus hb, 139pp, £12.99 Ackroyd’s latest novel is set 2,000 years in the future and is the tale of the orator Plato, who is charged … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #21:- SAFE AS HOUSES Carol Anne Davis The Do-Not Press pb, 246pp, £7.50 Davis’s second novel is an accomplished psychological chiller, one that focuses on the reasons for crime rather than simply cataloguing … Continue reading →

Another review that appeared in Zest #4 way back in 1998:- BARNACLE BILL THE SPACER AND OTHER STORIES Author: Lucius Shepard Publisher: Millennium Price: £5.99 Paperback (292pp) Widely acknowledged as one of the finest prose stylists currently writing Science Fiction, Shepard has … Continue reading →