Monthly Archives: July 2020

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #21:- LORD OF LIGHT Roger Zelazny Millennium pb, 261pp, £6.99 On a distant planet the survivors of a star ship landing use their advanced technology to set themselves up as the gods of … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #21:- THE REDISCOVERY OF MAN Cordwainer Smith Millennium pb, 377pp, £6.99 Paul Linebarger (1913 – 66), who wrote under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, produced a small but influential body of work, the novel Norstrilia and … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #24:- THE BOOK OF SHADOWS Namita Gokhale Little, Brown hb, 217pp, £16.99 Bitya, a young university lecturer from Delhi, is scarred in an acid attack by the sister of her lover, who killed … Continue reading →

Three reviews that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at ttapress.com on the 26th of September last year:- DR. BLACK AND THE GUERRILLIA (Grafitisk hc, 88pp) is the oldest of the Brendan Connell titles in my TBR pile, having … Continue reading →

Two reviews that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at ttapress.com on the 23rd of September last year:- I probably have more books by Brendan Connell in my TBR pile than by any other author, which is a comment … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #25:- THE MIDNIGHT SIDE Nastasha Mostert Hodder & Stoughton hb, 263pp, £16.99 Isa is woken in the middle of the night by a garbled phone call from her cousin Alette, but then in … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in The Third Alternative #22:- ALEXANDER AT THE WORLD’S END Tom Holt Little Brown hb, 434pp, £16.99 While Alexander’s name is on the cover and he dominates the  book, the story is about Euxenus, an impoverished citizen … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at ttapress.com on the 23rd of January this year:- Having started the week with a review of a short story collection by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist we’ll carry on … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at ttapress.com on the 20th of January this year:- A new year and a new me, who feels that it might be time to climb back on the Late Review … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared on the Case Notes blog at ttapress.com on the20th of September last year:- This is a week for satirists, though aside from that label there’s little else in the way of common denominator between the … Continue reading →