As Cher’s Greatest Hits sang from my speakers I knew it was time, time for a change at beavisthebookhead.com. Timeshift: Tales of Time is perhaps unsurprisingly a collection of time travel stories from such luminaries as Robert Silverberg, Kevin J Anderson and others. Science fiction isn’t really my bag, particularly in the long form….
Tag: Science-Fiction
Book review: Drabbledark – An Anthology of Dark Drabbles.
My previous experience with drabbles left me a little underwhelmed. The book I read certainly wasn’t a bad book, but it didn’t set my pulse racing either. Drabbledark is my second attempt and I had a little more success with this anthology. With the stories only being 100 words in length, you’re going to get…
Book review: Marque – Michael Patrick Hicks
Michael Patrick Hicks has once again delivered a fine story indeed with Marque. Marque is a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which the world has been taken over by aliens! I sometimes struggle a little with science-fiction but Hicks had me onside from the outset with his conflicted protagonist, Darrel Fines and the delicate situation he…
Guest book review: Thomas Joyce reviews Violence Dave: Heartless – Kostantine Paradias
Thomas Joyce is a book/audio reviewer at the excellent This Is Horror. If you have not been over there to check out their site, listened to the excellent podcast, or joined them on Patreon then you’re a fool. This is Horror is great source of all things horror and the Grim Reader gives them his highest…
Book review: Man With The Iron Heart – Mat Nastos
Sometimes you see a book cover and you simply say “Oh yes! It will be mine!”, such was the case with Man With The Iron Heart by Mat Nastos and published by Cohesion Press. This is one of those books where you barely get to draw a breathe before the next action-packed scene explodes inside…
Book review: There is Darkness in Every Room – Brian Fattah Steele
The truth is out there…and, for Brian Fatah Steele, it was time to break out his favourite X-Files episodes then get stuck into the writing of ‘There is Darkness in Every Room’. And let me tell you, fans of the show will love this book. Weird aliens, black goo, flesh being flayed from the bodies…
Book review: UBO – Steve Rasnic Tem
‘UBO’ is a superb story by Steve Rasnic Tem. It’s a sci-fi novel, though it does have strong horror elements to it as well. It follows a group of men trapped inside of a research facility. Are they on Earth or some other planet in a galaxy far, far away? Who are the man-size cockroaches…
Interview: Daniel Marc Chant
A recent vacation to the UK saw me make an appearance at Edge-Lit 5 in Derby. Edge-Lit is a terrific event organised by Alex Davis of Boo Books where a whole host of publishers, readers and writers come together to celebrate the written word. The day is filled with book launches, workshops and panels and…
Book review: Come into the Light – Stephen O’Rourke
‘Come into the Light’ was certainly a strange book. It is a novella at around 60 pages and one that wastes little time in getting going. A daring escape sees protagonist Harry escape the clutches of the strange sun god/entity thing that is using mind control to turn people into loyal followers called ‘Sunbies’. I…
Book Review: Drowned Worlds – Anthology
In a marketplace that is flooded with anthologies, it can sometimes be difficult in picking the right one. I like the idea of an anthology that has a theme behind it, one that is not content with being just another science fiction anthology but instead has asked writers to come up with a story based…
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