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...

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

In January I read Crying in the Rain (1987), a short story by Tanith Lee. It was the first story I read by her and it made me curious abo...

Last year I read Drowned Worlds (2016), a Jonathan Strahan's anthology of climate change fiction. It had a few good stories in it, bu...

Norman Spinrad made his name as part of the New Wave in the 1960s. It is the period in science fiction where things start to get interesti...

High Stakes is the 23rd book in the shared world series Wild Cards, and the final book in what has become known as the Mean Streets Triad...

For the final story in Short Fiction Month, I picked The Long Chase by Geoffrey A. Landis. His work is primarily short fiction of which I...

Reiko's Universe Box by Shinji Kajio is one of the many translations in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's enormous anthology The Big Book...

These days, pretty much everything that is being published by this author, appears under the pseudonym Robin Hobb. Once in a while a story...

I have read quite a few pieces of short fiction by Nancy Kress. She seems most comfortable writing novella length pieces (to the point whe...