BHappy New Year, folks! My year has begun well, with this excellent review of Bone Machines from Blood Rose Books.
Bone Machines – the movie?
Another terrific review suggesting the book would make a good TV drama or movie (thanks, Magpie!)
The Gumshoe Diaries
Move over Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, there’s a new PI in town – check out Nicholas Stanton’s The Gumshoe Diaries, for the start of what promises to be a terrific new noir series out of LA.
Dr. North’s Wound and Other Stories
Steampunk science fiction, supernatural and psychological horror, ghost stories, crime and magical realism. Eleven tales that take their protagonists to the very edge of the world they know – and then over it.“One of the most promising new writers I have read for some time. I highly recommend his work.” – Michael Moorcock.
My first short story collection, Dr North’s Wound and Other Stories is available in print from lulu.com and ebook from smashwords.com.
Print version: £5.00
Ebook $4.00
Recommended reads
Fear: A Cultural History by Joanna Bourke
A book which looks at how fears such as phobias, nuclear holocaust, terrorism and war have developed and changed in social consciousness in the last 150 years. Well worth reading.
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
A peculiar, extremely well written and gripping weird fantasy about a physiognomist who determines character from taking measurements of their bodies (for example, width between the eyes, nose to top lip) and acts as a sort of government investigator to uncover criminals or potential criminals through his art. I also recommend Mr Ford’s shorter work, in particular, The Empire of Ice Cream, which you can read online. But I also hope you will help him feed his family buy buying his terrific books.
Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
I love a good space opera. And this two-parter, while hugely long at around 3,000 pages, combine multiple storylines that will appeal to lovers of science fiction, crime, westerns, romance, horror, and outdoor adventure (a la Jack London). Hamilton manages to mash together a host of genres seamlessly. Impressive stuff. Oh, and I loved one of the central conceits. How do you get from one planet to another in across a vast galactic commonwealth? By train, naturally. Only a British writer could come up with that one. You can also listen to a postcast review with Peter at www.dragonpage.com.
Bone Machines 