Hardcover, published Michael Joseph 1980, (original publication 1953.) Frankly I have always liked this book more than The Day of the Triffids although I do really like that one as well. But with Kraken I like the main characters Mike and Phyllis better, and the story of their survival I find slightly more interesting as …
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CASINO INFERNALE by Simon Green.
Hardcover, ROC, June 2013. Also a Christmas present and received with cries of joy. I like much of what this author produces, (he lost me partway through his Deathstalker series) and while I don’t like the Drood series (of which this is the 7th ) quite as much as other series like the Nightside, Haven, …
MODESTY BLAISE-The Green-Eyed Monster, by Peter O’Donnell, (art by Enric Romero.)
large-size soft cover, Titan Books, September 2005. The author produced only 13 volumes of the Modesty Blaise full-length books and short stories collections that weren’t comic strip, I loved all of them, (see the entry – Modesty Blaise in my Have You Overlooked – ? section. So I finally decided to buy one of the …
Once in a Blue Moon by Simon Green.
ROC Tradepaperback January 2014. Third in the Blue Moon titles. A lot of Simon Green’s books overlap in some way, either with background or characters. This one does both since it’s the third in the Blue Moon titles and uses the characters Prince Rupert and Princess Julia, a.k.a. Hawk and Fisher, who also appeared in …
TALES OF THE TALISMAN Vol. Issue 3. Edited David Lee Summers
large dimension trade paperback. 114 pages, contains stories, poems, column, a comic strip and an article. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. This magazine goes from strength to strength. I didn’t find a single story that I didn’t think to be good quality, I liked some more than others, but there were none that I disliked. Most …
W IS FOR WASTED by Sue Grafton
Hardcover, Pan McMillan, 2013, At the present rate of production which has slowed considerably from the original books in this series, I estimate that the author will be well into her 80s when the final Z volume is published. I can only hope, in view of the uncertainty of life, that she has actually written …
THE BACK OF THE BACK OF BEYOND by Edwina Harvey
softcover, published Peggy Bright Books, 2013. This book was funny, clever, and throughly enjoyable. It has a faintly fannish air to it, and a line of familiar character names help that, but discounting them, the stories are still rolicking good fun. It’s told in first person, about a woman who wants to live on a …
UNLOCK THE WRITER WITHIN, A GO TO Guide to Successful Writing, edited Colleen Parker,
produced by the New South Wales Fellowship of Australian Writers. Softcover, 416 pages, including a useful final section for the reader’s notes. This is a solid production, the cover is most attractive and the layout and sections are very well done. It covers every aspect of a writer’s trade and makes allowances for the most …
STARHAWK by Jack McDevitt.
Hardcover, published ACE, November 2013 I should admit from the start that I’ve never read one of this author’s books that I didn’t like, didn’t expect this to be the exception and it wasn’t. In fact of the “Priscilla Hutchins†series, I enjoyed this most of all. I believe that many authors who’ve written a …
The Sixth Winter by Douglas Orgill & John Gribbin.
Paperback published Futura 1980. I’ve always had a liking for Disaster/Post Holocaust novels and this is a good one. There’s sufficient scientific stuff to be very convincing, and not more of the information that you need to do that, so that the reader isn’t bored or taken beyond what they can understand as an ordinary …