A Mini Monday Morning Missive

A few more excellent reviews have surfaced over the last few days:

At Only the Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Lavie Tidhar’s debut, The Bookman is reviewed. They describe it as:

steampunk in 3D! Highly recommended

Guy Adams’ weird and wonderful modern fantasy The World House gets more praise over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review:

It’s not often that I find myself tearing through a book, desperate to find out how it all ends but at the same time trying to hold back and drag out such an enjoyable reading experience for as long as possible. It’s even less often that I find myself doing this with a book that can be so unrelentingly dark and sinister. This was my experience of the ‘World House’; a book that reeled me in and had me hooked before I even realised that I’d taken the bait. I didn’t mind in the slightest.

This is the kind of book that ‘Best of Lists’ were made for. Nine and Three Quarters out of Ten

Oh, yeah!

Thomas Blackthorne’s near future ultra-violent SF thriller Edge, meanwhile, has been causing a bit of a stir over at Science Fiction and Fantasy.co.uk:

The characters themselves are wonderfully fleshed out and their interaction is quite mesmerising.
… an intelligent, slick and brilliantly executed novel with a quite unexpected but superbly scripted ending.