A few recent reviews and other interesting stuff

It’s been a while since we posted any reviews (largely due to the fact that we’re in the middle of a short break before our US/Canada launch and our UK relaunch) but here are a few that came to our attention, recently:

The Speculative Scotsman has this to say about Kaaron Warren’s wonderful fantasy, Walking the Tree:

Warren’s almost detached tone belies a startling blackness at the heart of her narrative… Walking the Tree is an unpretentious, eye-opening experience. Dark but never dim, Karron Warren’s first novel since she documented the psyche of a serial killer in her debut Slights is an insightful, earthy chronicle of diversity and understandings arrived at and remade. Hers is a voice that demands to be heard, and I don’t doubt that this marvelous fable represents only the root of her talents.

Wow!

Meanwhile, over at BiblioBuffet, Arthurian specialist Gillian Polack touches on what makes a successful retelling of the Arthurian myth. King Maker comes under some pretty close scrutiny (the section on King Maker is about halfway down the feature):

King Maker is different. King Maker is based on an idea so very clever that I keep telling my friends “Look—it’s clever!” It’s like watching West Side Story for the first time. It’s like reading Malory as an adult, after having discovered Geoffrey of Monmouth and Nennius and Wace and Chrétien and Marie.

There is so much more I could quote from this article, but rather than just read the odd soundbite, I urge you to read the full piece.

And finally (for now), Mat Coward reviews Colin Harvey’s Winter Song for the Morning Star newspaper:

This is tough, traditional science fiction with plenty of “Hard SF” and world-building, intriguingly leavened by the spirit of the Norse myths that runs through it. Good entertainment by a thinking writer.