THE TIGER’S DAUGHTER, by K Arsenault Rivera Tor Books, 2017 eBook, 295pp The Tiger’s Daughter, by K Arsenault Rivera, is an east Asian-inspired epic fantasy centred on the legendary love story of O-Shizuka, divine empress of Hokkaro, and Barsalyya Shefali, outcast daughter of the leader of the Qorin, a race of nomadic warrior horse-masters. This […]
AUTONOMOUS, Annalee Newitz Tor Books, 2017 eBook, preview excerpt You might know Annalee Newitz from her editorship of excellent SF culture website io9 and tech sites Gizmodo and Ars Technica, or from her extensive non-fiction writings, including Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction from Doubleday and Anchor (which I bought […]
A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC, VE SCHWAB Titan Books, 2015 Paperback, 400pp A Darker Shade of Magic is a book of four Londons. In VE Schwab’s fantastic multiverse, four worlds with divergent histories and cartographies lie alongside one another like the leaves of a book, with London a fixed point in all of them. The story follows […]