Some Monday morning robot luuurve

A few more fabulous reviews for your delectation:

The Guardian has this to say about Ian Whates’ debut novel, City of Dreams and Nightmare:

Whates’s assured prose, slick pacing and inventive imagination make for a gripping read. His first novel is the work of a born storyteller.

The fantastically-named Captain Mission turns his attention to Guy Adams’ The World House:

a brilliant twisted fantasy that’s dark and bewildering and somewhat funny as well… it’s like alice in wonderland meets steven king on mescaline

Next, Kaaron Warren’s wonderful fantasy, Walking the Tree from Total SciFi Online.

It is the setting that really makes the story and keeps the reader interested. The various communities of Botanica are well thought out and intriguing, and their differing attitudes towards disease, sex and the Tree constantly challenge Lillah’s thoughts and beliefs. It also draws on our own awareness of humanity’s evolution, and adds a sense of reality to the already convincing setting.

Moxyland is reviewed, as part of a history of Cyberpunk over at The Zone:

one of the more interesting aspects of Moxyland is the way that it refuses to follow the recent trend of exoticising cyberpunk…

Moxyland is a wake-up call to a generation of science fiction writers that have been slumbering for far too long: if you want to write about the future then you cannot do so on terms that were set nearly 30 years ago: just as the mainstream of culture has evolved, so too must the ways in which thinkers formulate their opposition to that mainstream.

Kell’s Legend gets a couple more reviews, too. First up, SciFi-Fantasy Bookshelf:

The Kell storyline is very high fantasy, it is the larger picture of the world that is important here. The idea of the vachine are a brilliant reimagining of both steampunk ideas and vampires. With these creatures set in a world that Remic obviously has so much as yet unrevealed history for there is nowhere to go but up.

And over at Un:Bound:

Kell himself is an absolute bastard in many ways, his humanity largely tied to his grandaughter but he is trying to do the right thing and be a decent man… It’s a fast brutal fantasy adventure with some fun characters and some fantastic ideas. I am really excited to see the series develop.