2023-01-05 17:42
The final results for the Science Fiction Invaders reading challenge are in.
I've tallied all the points from participants who submitted their scores to be
featured on the leaderboard an… Read More
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2023-01-02 05:00
A new year means it's time to look back on the year that was and embrace the
chance to start anew.
2022 was a tough year for me. I struggled with burnout and the constant load
sheddi… Read More
2022-12-31 22:00
2022's Science Fiction Invaders challenge was huge fun and quite a few people joined in on the challenge. The amount of participants exceeded all my expectations so I'm calling it a success… Read More
2022-12-29 19:43
This year has been a strange year for me. Everything started out fine, but
about halfway through the year I found it harder and harder to focus on
reading. Halfway through the year I los… Read More
2022-08-16 17:58
Over the last couple of months I've been struggling with severe burnout. It
started at the end of April. Slowly, one by one, I lost all interest in all my
hobbies and nothing seemed to b… Read More
2022-06-01 18:58
I've always wanted to try my hand at building some model kits. Aside from some
Star Wars
papercraft this was something I've never ever tried before. Not even as a kid (well at
least no… Read More
2022-04-21 16:53
Title: Giving The Devil His Due
Edited by Rebecca Brewer
Pages: 290
ISBN: 9781947041905
Publisher: Running Wild Press
Published: 1 September 2021
Genre: Short stories… Read More
2022-04-18 05:00
April marks
Sexual Assault Awareness Month. To raise awareness towards the worldwide struggle to stop violence against
women The Pixel Project in
collaboration with
Running Wild Pres… Read More
2022-04-05 20:41
The first quarter of the year has come and gone. So many books, so little
time.
It's time to announce the Science Fiction Invaders reading challenge
leaderboard for the first quarter… Read More
2022-03-28 19:42
Want to double your shelf space with minimal effort? Then building a shelf riser might be just the thing for you.Over the weekend I found myself with an overabundance of cardboard boxes (don… Read More
2022-03-21 12:06
For my birthday I decided to spoil myself with a teeny tiny book haul. Totaling just three books, this might be my smallest book haul ever Read More
2022-02-27 19:14
Title: The Deathworld Omnibus
Author: Harry Harrison
Series: Deathworld #1-3
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781473228375
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: March 1960
Genre: Scien… Read More
2022-02-12 10:25
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or
paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to
be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2022-02-01 17:14
Any respectable reading challenge should have a book tag to go along with it.
Introducing the Science Fiction Invaders Book Tag. Seven questions to get to
know fellow science fiction fan… Read More
2022-01-16 12:17
2021 has been a YEAR, another trying year with loads of challenges and
difficult circumstances to overcome. Thankfully it's over and a new year
filled with hope and lots of books beckons… Read More
2022-01-01 20:11
Another year has come and gone. 2021 was a very tough year, in so many ways.
I'm thankful to see it end. I managed to read 70 books, finishing the last
book of the year with just 10 minu… Read More
2021-12-29 18:38
Nothing rings in a new year quite like a shiny new reading challenge. It
brings me great joy to officially announce the Science Fiction Invaders reading
challenge. This is a fun, low-com… Read More
2021-12-21 11:02
Title: You Sexy Thing
Author: Cat Rambo
Pages: 306
ISBN: 9781250269300
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 16 November 2021
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Opera
Source: Library loan
TwiceFar st… Read More
2021-12-16 18:44
Title: Leviathan Falls
Author: James S.A. Corey
Series: The Expanse #9
Pages: 560
ISBN: 9780356510392
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 30 November 2021
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Opera
Sourc… Read More
2021-12-12 16:57
While I haven't been able to read much over the last two months I went just a
little crazy during the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales from
Reader's Warehouse. Who could resist… Read More
2021-11-01 10:47
I just spotted the cover for a new Neal Asher novel coming out in 2022. If you are looking for action-packed space opera goodness then Asher never disappoints!
Weaponized by Neal Asher… Read More
2021-10-23 11:36
Here's a little Halloween flash fiction treat for you. I'm not a writer by any stretch of the imagination, but this story idea just got stuck in my head and had to get out. Even if my writin… Read More
2021-09-20 05:00
Title: Shards of Earth
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Series: Final Architecture #1
Pages: 548
ISBN: 9780316705851
Publisher: Orbit / Tor
Published: 3 August 2021
Genre: Science Fiction / Space… Read More
2021-09-17 10:47
The life of a bookworm is filled with things other people just don't
understand. You can try to explain it to them, but only other bookworms will be
able to truly understand and share in you… Read More
2021-09-16 18:37
It's not often that I need to do a book haul post in two parts (part one is over here), but given all the recent book sales and my complete inability to resist a
good deal I ended up order… Read More
2021-09-13 16:38
With Branson and Bezos both launching themselves on suborbital trips to space
social media was rife with narratives about billionaires escaping the planet
and what an immense waste of re… Read More
2021-09-09 16:34
When I'm frustrated. I buy books.
When I'm stressed. I buy books.
When I want to celebrate. I buy books.
All of which have let to a ton of book buying over the past month. Especially
si… Read More
2021-09-04 20:16
A while back I came across some pictures of the Eaglemoss DC Comics
collection. The Alex Ross artwork on their spines looked amazing and I
immediately developed some serious shelf envy… Read More
2021-08-26 17:51
I'm a HUGE Alastair Reynolds fan and can't wait to get my hands on his
latest novel, Inhibitor Phase, which promises a triumphant return to the
Revelation Space universe.
Inhibitor… Read More
2021-08-10 14:47
Title: Hold Up The Sky
Author: Cixin Liu
Pages: 407
ISBN: 9781838937621
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 1 October 2020
Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
Source: Review copy from publ… Read More
2021-08-06 08:31
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2021-07-10 10:23
Title: Green Valley
Author: Louis Greenberg
Pages: 319
ISBN: 9781789090239
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 11 June 2019
Genre: Science Fiction / Thriller / Horror… Read More
2021-07-04 16:32
The past couple of weeks have been extremely tough at work. The world seemed
filled with doom and gloom and the cold, rainy weather didn't help either. The
bookish gods must have taken p… Read More
2021-06-16 08:39
Title: Guns of the Dawn
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Pages: 658
ISBN: 9781447234562
Publisher: Tor
Published: 1 February 2015
Genre: Fantasy
Source: Purchased
First, Denland's revolutionaries… Read More
2021-06-15 17:41
If there's one thing I know how to do it's buying books. When I came across the Book Shopping Book Tag on YouTube I just knew I had to do it too (albeit in text form). Who doesn't love book… Read More
2021-05-16 12:11
I absolutely adored the first volume of Netflix's Love, Death and Robots and
the second volume, which launched on Friday, doesn't disappoint at all.
While smaller in scope than the fir… Read More
2021-05-10 05:00
Title: Liftoff
Author: Eric Berger
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9780008445638
Publisher: William Collins
Published: 2 March 2021
Genre: Non Fiction / Aerospace
Source: Review copy from publisher
The d… Read More
2021-05-04 17:56
March was my birthday month. As luck would have it it also coincided with some really good book sales at Reader's Warehouse and Loot, my two favourite online book retailers in South Af… Read More
2021-03-29 05:00
Title: Later
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781789096491
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Published: 2 March 2021
Genre: Horror / Crime
Source: Library
The son of a struggling single mot… Read More
2021-03-09 11:04
Independent UK publisher, Unsung Stories, has launched a Kickstarter campaign
to help fund Out of the Darkness, an anthology of dark fantasy and
horror fiction which aims to raise awaren… Read More
2021-03-08 09:22
Title: Dogs of War
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Series: Dogs of War #1
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9781786693877
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2 November 2017
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Purcha… Read More
2021-02-25 20:00
One of the things that has been bugging me for quite some time now is that I
don't have any cool geeky stuff to display on my bookshelves. Most of my
fellow science fiction geeks seem to… Read More
2021-02-25 12:35
It has been an entire year since I last ordered some books. So, when Reader's
Warehouse announced they had a book sale going on, I just couldn't resist any
longer. I might even have gone… Read More
2021-02-09 20:57
While I haven't been buying a lot of books lately I seem to have gotten into
the habit of buying bookish related things. After getting a
laptop desk reading desk, my latest acquisition i… Read More
2021-01-30 21:34
Like most bookworms out there I have this dream of having my own personal
library with entire walls lined with shelves. Trying to make that dream a
reality has been a nearly impossible t… Read More
2021-01-23 16:52
I absolutely adored This Time Away, a sci-fi short film starring Timothy Spall. It's a really touching look at loneliness and grief and how we push people away when we actually need them the… Read More
2021-01-21 20:40
Late one night, while aimlessly perusing online stores I came across a listing
for a "Multi-Functional Bamboo Standing Laptop Table". It looked pretty
useful, but I never use my laptop i… Read More
2021-01-18 05:00
Title: Survivor Song
Author: Paul Tremblay
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781785657863
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 7 July 2020
Genre: Horror
Source: Review copy from publisher
When it happens, i… Read More
2021-01-11 18:24
Tor.com has revealed the cover for Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell. With the combined talents of two of my favourite science fiction authors this will definitely be on… Read More
2021-01-04 04:00
The most exciting thing about the start of any new year is the chance to
browse through publisher catalogs trying to find forthcoming books to get
excited about. A new year means new boo… Read More
2021-01-01 10:18
2020 was a hellish year filled with anxiety, uncertainty and so much loss. I'm
so glad it's done and over with. While 2021 won't magically make everything
better it as least brings with… Read More
2020-12-31 16:16
Over the past year I've been contemplating moving away from affiliate links
which barely work and finding ways for people to directly support the blog.
Worlds in Ink is, and will remain, a p… Read More
2020-12-30 19:42
2020 has been a hellish year. A year filled with stress, anxiety, huge uncertainty and immense loss. I don't know how I would've managed to stay sane if I didn't have books to escape into. W… Read More
2020-12-24 11:04
Title: Machine
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Series: White Space #2
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9781534403017
Publisher: Saga Press
Published: 20 October 2020
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Opera
Source: Rev… Read More
2020-12-17 08:38
Despite what some people might think I have not been abducted by aliens or sucked beyond the event horizon of a black hole. Although, given the circumstances one of those might not have been… Read More
2020-10-06 05:00
I really enjoyed Elizabeth Bear's Ancestral Night. The White Space universe is truly fascinating and on 20 October, Machine, another book set in the same universe will be released. I can't w… Read More
2020-09-24 17:31
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2020-09-16 17:15
At the end of March, before the world went all crazy, I received one last package of review copies from Jonathan Ball Publishers (a HUGE thank you to them!). In all the madness I never got r… Read More
2020-09-07 19:00
After much deliberation and loads of chaos among the judges it's finally time to announce the winners of the 2020 Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. These are the best science fiction, fantasy… Read More
2020-09-05 05:00
It was the Spring of 2010, a far happier, more innocent time for us all. Something must have been in the air, because that was the time a bunch of geeky South African book lovers decided to… Read More
2020-08-25 08:31
Title: Ancestral Night
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Series: White Space #1
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781534403000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 5 March 2019
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Op… Read More
2020-08-11 05:00
Title: Velocity Weapon
Author: Megan E. O'Keefe
Series: The Protectorate #1
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9780316419598
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 11 June 2019
Genre: Science Fiction / Space Opera
Sour… Read More
2020-08-05 18:46
There have been some recent Twitter discussions about whether classic SFF novels are important and if they should be required reading for someone who wants to get into speculative fiction. D… Read More
2020-08-04 17:26
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2020-08-01 11:23
Title: A Memory Called Empire
Author: Arkady Martine
Pages: 461
ISBN: 9780529001594
Publisher: Tor
Published: 26 March 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Purchased
Buy it from:
The Book De… Read More
2020-07-28 05:00
Title: The Outside
Author: Ada Hoffmann
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780857668141
Publisher: Angry Robot
Published: 11 June 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Purchased
Buy it from:
Angry Robot
Au… Read More
2020-07-23 05:00
Despite the best attempt of the global pandemic to derail things the time has come to announce the finalists for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards. It was a herculean task to narrow things… Read More
2020-06-23 16:03
Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic… Read More
2020-05-12 12:20
The best things come in threes and nowhere is that more apparent than the fantasy genre's obsession with trilogies. As part of #WyrdAndWonder I take a look at 3 fantasy trilogies I still nee… Read More
2020-05-05 16:53
The trailer for the latest Netflix series, Space Force, has just been released and it looks awesome!
With a great cast of actors and a sense of humour this seems right up my alley. Spac… Read More
2020-05-01 11:22
What a strange time we live in. The COVID19 lockdown for South Africa started on 26 March. Being confined at home with all the reading time in the world didn't sound all that bad. All… Read More
2020-04-24 12:57
Title: If It Bleeds
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9781982137977
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 21 April 2020
Genre: Horror | Novellas
Source: Library
Buy it from:
The Book Depositor… Read More
2020-04-08 18:54
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2020-04-03 10:43
As weird as the world currently is there are still new books coming out, even if they might be limited to ebook releases for the time being. One of the titles I'm excited about is the latest… Read More
2020-03-23 15:30
We all need something to keep our minds off of the current state of the world. While trying to ease my anxiety during my lunch break at work today I came up with the Stay Far, Far Away Bingo… Read More
2020-03-21 21:29
With everything going on in the world right now we need to find joy in the small things. For me that means buying books. The process of opening a newly arrived package and smelling the sweet… Read More
2020-03-15 10:26
Title: Light of Impossible Stars
Author: Gareth L. Powell
Pages: 364
ISBN: 9781785655241
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 18 February 2020
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Purchased
Buy it f… Read More
2020-03-09 16:44
Recently I haven't been reading much. Job stress left me a drained, exhausted husk with barely enough energy to lift a book, let alone read it. This wasn't a reading slump. I wanted to read… Read More
2020-03-01 18:08
Title: Wanderers
Author: Chuck Wendig
Pages: 782
ISBN: 9781781088104
Publisher: Solaris
Published: 1 June 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Review copy from publisher
Buy it from:
The Boo… Read More
2020-02-10 19:17
Title: Steel Frame
Author: Andrew Skinner
Pages: 478
ISBN: 9781781087053
Publisher: Solaris
Published: 27 August 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Review copy from publisher
Buy it from:… Read More
2020-02-07 05:00
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2020-02-04 17:30
Since this seemed to be the quickest SCKA category to get through I decided to tackle the short works first. I'm easing into the whole thing. Dipping my toes in before I jumped into the larg… Read More
2020-01-31 16:31
Toss a pebble to* your author
O, readers of plenty,
O, readers of plenty.
Creators of worlds
with magical words
they astound and thrill
It's time to pay the bill
Subjective kin… Read More
2020-01-28 19:51
Machina, the latest serial from Serial Box takes two of my favourite things, AI and space exploration, and combines them into a thrilling narrative that captivates from the very start.
Writ… Read More
2020-01-24 05:00
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2020-01-22 05:00
Machina, the latest serial from Serial Box combines two of my favourite things, AI and space exploration, and combines it into a thrilling narrative that captivates from the very start.
Fea… Read More
2020-01-18 16:37
Title: Cage of Souls
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Pages: 602
ISBN: 9781788547376
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 4 April 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Review copy from publisher
Buy… Read More
2020-01-14 05:00
Title: New Suns
Edited by Nisi Shawl
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9781781086384
Publisher: Solaris
Published: 12 March 2019
Genre: Science Fiction
Source: Review copy from publisher
Buy it from:
The Bo… Read More
2020-01-13 05:00
Since all my family and friends shy away from given me books as gifts with the old, "You already have so many books. We don't know what to get you..." excuse it has become a tradition for me… Read More
2020-01-11 14:00
Pandora's box has been opened and, since there's no going back now I can finally reveal a secret. Late one evening while minding my own business on Twitter I was accosted by a decidedly shad… Read More
2020-01-10 05:00
Some novels have the ability to draw you in from the start. A single line or paragraph can grab your attention in such a way that the novel just demands to be read. Opening Lines is a featur… Read More
2020-01-07 18:48
The most exciting thing about the start of any new year is the chance browse through publisher catalogs trying to find the forthcoming books to get excited about. A new year means new books… Read More
2020-01-02 15:11
In preparation for the release of the Witcher series on Netflix I thought it would be a great idea to read the books first. Many people would have you believe that the Witcher series by Andr… Read More
2020-01-01 09:05
In 2019 I set myself three simple goals - to read 30 books, to read more comics and to review more. Most importantly I gave myself permission to have fun without stressing about deadlines, c… Read More
2019-12-30 20:09
What a year it's been! For a moment there I didn't think we'll ever make it to the end. Yet, here we are in the last days of 2019. Finally...
As the year draws to a close it's time to look… Read More
2019-12-01 10:16
I had a vague recollection of reading one of David Brin’s Uplift novels as a teen and loving it. Since Goodreads didn’t exist back then I wasn’t sure which one it might hav… Read More
2019-11-12 05:00
Title: The Institute
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 482
ISBN: 9781529355406
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 10 September 2019
Genre: Thriller
Source: Review copy from publisher
Bu… Read More
2019-11-03 17:07
While I haven't been buying all that many books recently I simply couldn't resist ordering a Halloween treat for myself.
The new Halloween editions of Stephen King's novels are simply gorge… Read More
2019-10-07 04:30
Last week was a truly hectic week at work. Half of the staff were on sick leave, month-end returns needed to be in and on top of that even more work seemed to arrive on an hourly basis for U… Read More
2019-09-23 05:00
Title: Walking to Aldebaran
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781781087060
Publisher: Solaris
Published: 28 May 2019
Genre: Science Fiction / Novella
Source: Review copy from publ… Read More
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