The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (Black Library, 2010, PB £7.99) The Black Library’s hottest new author delivers a sucker punch on behalf of the consistently amazing Horus Heresy series. For existing fans this is a key addition to the overall story arc (being book fourteen) but crucially, due to its pre-heresy setting, is also […]
The Search For WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi (Simon & Schuster, PB, due out September 2011, £6.99) This is one of the most original books I’ve read in some time. You may know of Tony DiTerlizzi as being one of the co-creators, and illustrator, of The Spiderwick Chronicles. I’m a fan of that series but I […]
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit, £7.99, out now) Bio-punk is an emergent subgenre in sci-fi, swapping the cyber in cyberpunk for genetics. Debut author Bacigalupi does a fantastic job of world building here, as well as bringing to life a set of very real, and flawed, characters all trying to survive in a […]