The long awaited tenth volume of Saga finally washed up on Swedish shores yesterday (and proved very much worth the wait). And I couldn’t pass up a collection of stories by the Magus of Northampton, though I am somewhat trepiditious: I acquired Jerusalem ages ago, but never managed to get more than a quarter through…

An assortment.

Went looking for the new Saga, which has yet to arrive on Swedish shores, but the new Monstress is a fine tide-me-over. A very dark and maximalist series, this, in both its art style and story; Liu’s short prose fiction seems much less densely packed, somehow. But something about this story keeps me coming back;…

Another title for review.

The Nicholls partly on the basis of Adam Roberts’s qualified recommendation (which I would link to, only I read it via RSS, and cannot recall upon which of the half-dozen websites Roberts runs it appeared), partly on the basis of Nicholls’s nigh-legendary status, and partly because it’s a way to support the Science Fiction Encyclopedia…