Val's Random Comments

Last year, Tor.com took the plunge and moved into publishing novellas and short novels. Up to that point their original fiction had mostly...

The first time someone told me I should really read American Gods was back in 2004. It had been out for a few years back then and made qu...

This novel is probably one of the best known and most read science fiction novels of all time. Its connection with the Stanley Kubrick mov...

I'm running low on recent publications again so I reached for a backlist title from the huge stack of books I mean to review one day...

Planetfall by Emma Newman is a book I have read a lot of good things about. Newman has published four other novels in the past few years,...

Only the Stones Survive is the latest  historical fantasy by Irish-American author Morgan Llywelyn. I received a review copy from the peo...

I don't often read works translated from English to Dutch anymore. Generally I prefer to read the original. In this case however, I ha...

A new year on Random Comments traditionally opens with a review of one of Allastair Reynolds' books. This year I picked his short stor...

No moves, no personal emergencies and (unfortunately) no trips abroad this year. Which means I managed to write at least one review every ...

A Fantasy Medley 3 , edited by Yanni Kuznia, is a short anthology published in the last day of 2015 by Subterranean Press. They were kind ...