Val's Random Comments

One of the most exciting novels I read last year was Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit . It offered fast-paced space opera combined with a ...

Note: this text is only available in Dutch translation. I am not aware of any plans to publish it in English. In September 2016, I read...

Emma Newman's After Atlas (2016) is set in the same universe as Planetfall (2015). That book turned out to be one of the top reads o...

Last October I read Peter F. Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction on a trip to my girlfriend's family in Norway. These books are id...

The House of Binding Thorns is the second novel i n Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen setting. It is not a sequel exactly. ...

In his previous novel Aurora (2015) Robinson tackled a well known science fiction trope, that of a sub-lightspeed generational space ship...

There are a couple of pretty big novels on my to read list and at the moment I can't seem to manage to read them in a week. To fill th...

The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu is the second volume his Dandileon Dynasty series. It weighs in at nearly 860 pages in hardcover, driving h...

This is a review of the short story that originally appeared in Interzone in 1986, the same title was later used for a collection, which ...

Lord of Emperors , the second book in Guy Gavriel Kay's Sarantine Mosaic duology, is pretty much required reading for people who have ...