As you've probably already heard on Boing Boing or SF Signal or Bookspot Central , and as I've already Tweeted and Facebooked: Fo...

You go out of town for a week, and look what happens: Ian McDonald's Brasyl has made the short list for the Nebula Awards!! Meanwhile o...

The most recent issue of the London Review of Books contains, amongst its usual slew of interesting and stimulating reviews, this article b...

I'm a slow reader. I'm a slow writer too, but that's a different post altogether --no, I'm a slow reader. Part of it's t...

Blood of Ambrose by James Enge Cover Illustration © Dominic Harman Jacket Design by Jacqueline Cooke Brasyl (trade paperback) by Ian McD...

I hate to complain, but here goes. I’m completing the final volume ( Prince of Storms ) in a big-story-arc series, The Entire and The Rose. ...

I've temporarily put down Hal Duncan's brilliant-but-dizzying fantasy pastiche Vellum so I can concentrate on reading something tha...

Two epic fantasy novels, Matthew Sturges' Midwinter and Tom Lloyd's The Twilight Herald (Book Two of the Twilight Reign quintet) ...

Like an establishment known for its fine wine, Mr Ian McDonald needs no bush hung in front of his enterprise to attract eager customers, but...

Longtime visitors to my blog, the Interminable Ramble, may recall me saying that Pendelton Ward 's "Adventure Time", which I...