"For reasons unknown to everyone, Sherlock Holmes' birthday is celebrated every year on January 6." It's time to return once more to the Sherlock Holmes bookstore, run by ex-pat, Gemma Doyle, who might not actually be related to the famous author but shares the deductive reasoning skills of the even more famous fictional detective! These … Continue reading The Devil is in the Details – Vicki Delany
"There can be only One True Religion. Are you feeling lucky, believer?" Each book in the Laundry Files so far jumps forward about 3 years, and Bob Howard is progressing quickly in his career. At the moment he's in that awkward phase of being seen as capable and reliable by his bosses, while still being … Continue reading The Fuller Memorandum – Charles Stross
"It was early morning on the banks of the Elkinslough River." Mangled bodies with drastic and inexplicable injuries have started to show up in the city's river. Earstripe, a gnole (sort of a talking badger) and local constable (although there's tension in the inter-species attempts at inclusion), wants to investigate more than his superiors think … Continue reading Paladin’s Hope – T Kingfisher
"So this was America." We first met Alex Easton in the reimagining of The Fall of the House of Usher, What Moves the Dead. It seems like Easton's luck has not changed, as they receive a telegram with plea for help from Dr Denton, and know that anyone who could survive the mycelial nightmare of … Continue reading What Stalks the Deep – T Kingfisher
"On the ship, as it tacked in past the sea wall, she was in her coffin of a cabin trying, by stub of candle and sequin of mirror, to make herself presentable." The Tyrant Philosophers series, starting with City of Last Chances, tells loosely-connected tales of the Palleseen Sway - an empire in the making, intent … Continue reading Days of Shattered Faith – Adrian Tchaikovsky
"The words that twanged and thrummed their way to Nth said, New food coming, and he stirred, resettling his legs to take the measure of the message: how far, what direction, who originated it." A prophecy has foretold that the Dark Lord will be vanquished by a band of misfits wielding a dark weapon - … Continue reading Spiderlight – Adrian Tchaikovsky
"We're off to the perimeter, heading uphill on our little Loonie towards where a canopy tether should have been but - Damage Central tells us - isn't." In Dogs of War, we were introduced to the idea of bioforms: 'modded' creatures, initially built - of course - for war. The story starts with a 'multi-form assault squad', … Continue reading Bear Head – Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Being able to see the walls of your prison is a luxury that few are afforded." In The Book That Wouldn't Burn, we were introduced to the world of the Library - I mean *the* library, bigger than a city, bending space and time, full of more mysteries and intrigue and just everything. And, alas, I … Continue reading The Book That Broke the World – Mark Lawrence
"Basit Deniau's greatest architectural triumph is the house he died in." Rose House lies in the middle of nowhere, deep in the Mohave desert. It was the crowning glory of the already-successful architect, Basit Deniau, because this wasn't just stone and glass and sweeping curves: Rose House is alive. Every part of it is infused … Continue reading Rose/House – Arkady Martine
"'Guv?' My barman was a mechanical, multi-limbed lifeform from a system in the vicinity of Arcturus." After discovering interstellar travel - via a phenomenon dubbed 'tramlines' - mankind's diaspora takes on new meaning when Earth is destroyed by the utterly alien 'Cutters'. Not wholly of our reality, these near-unstoppable killing machines seem to have no … Continue reading Future’s Edge – Gareth Powell
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