Lovecraftian Yule

This year, we are celebrating the festive season at home. While Jasper and Una have settled well after the move, my wife and I decided it was probably still too early to suddenly disappeared for several days and have a stranger started invade the house a couple of times a day to lurk near the food bowls and the litter tray. So, we are hosting all our parents.

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Fractured Skies by Stephanie Flint & Isaac Flint

The Flints mix the ethics of regime change, magic, future technology, and teenage angst to create a tale that is both an extravaganza of fantastical events and a nuanced exploration of moral choice.

This novel is the second in the Distant Horizons series, and includes events that happen at the same time as the Glitch trilogy.

The Black Sea of Experience

Proving once more that psychogeographers and chaos magicians might be onto something, the chance collision of pedestrian-crossing etiquette and computer gaming has summoned forth before me a dread irony: the human mind inconsistently correlates the meaning Lovecraft’s work, and that results in a lack of mercy.

Out of Sight by Matthew S. Cox

Blending the common truths of being a teenager and being homeless with engaging science fiction world building and exciting challenges, Cox creates a tale that will interest fans of young adult, social commentary, and ripping yarns alike.

Of Tongue and Penknife

While flattening a stubborn package to go in the recycling, I was reminded of my first encounter with penknife ownership; and of the depths of feeling behind that moment. A story that feels apposite today.

H+ incorporated by Gary Dejean

Dejean neither confines himself to the provably likely nor indulges in flights of fancy, creating a story that is both futurist narrative and cyberpunk thriller.

Deep Joy

I’m still settling into our new house, but my moments of joy have become more nuanced and abstruse.

Stone Heart by Garrett Robinson

Robinson explores the implications of shape-shifting magic on gender while also providing a fantasy tale packed with both action and politics.

This is the second volume in the Tales of the Wanderer. There may be spoilers ahead.

Millhaven Press’ Christmas Sale

All three volumes of Millhaven Tales (including Millhaven’s Tales of Suspense, featuring a story by me) are on sale until 25th December 2018. Fill the gap in your wonder, suspense, or terror collections here.

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Ghost Black by Matthew S. Cox

Cox blends speed-boosted cyber-action with more introspective questions about individual and social costs to create a seamless blend of action and depth that is likely to appeal to science-fiction and espionage fans of all flavours.

This novel is the third in the Daughter of Mars series. Displaying this review might corrupt surprises in previous volumes.