It happened while we slept. We woke one morning, and the military had taken over - not with guns, but with books. Science fiction, once...

A new talent recently emerged on the military thriller scene - indeed, it all but burst onto the scene full grown, and received almost...

Calling Tami Hoag’s latest novel shocking is an understatement. ‘Cold Cold Heart’ is quite literally brimming with violence, guilt and...

Like science fiction fans around the globe, I was saddened to learn of the death, aged 83, of that giant of imagined space exploration,...

Neil Gaiman is a craftsman, with more than one publication that could easily be categorised as a modern classic - "Good Omens", his witty...

“You’ll soon find, no matter how prepared you are, things go upside-down, fast.” Fresh from the hunt for a group of terrorists set on...

After a seven year break, Chris Brookmyre has finally brought back his old protagonist, investigative journo Jack Parlabane, in all his...

When a gifted but socially-challenged young artist’s attempts to define beauty run up against a grizzled old lawyer’s attempts to define...

Military science fiction - or, at least military science fiction written by authors with practical experience in the various branches of...

Showered with plaudits for this debut novel, 'The String Diaries' (Headline, 2013), Stephen Lloyd Jones was always going to have his work...