Don’t know about you, bra, but WE love reading awesome speculative fiction. Here’s our first look at some prime picks.

Altered Carbon Richard Morgan
A fascinating SF world with a noirish detective feel and a labyrinthine plot taking full advantage of ubiquitous personality-upload tech peppered with a soupcon of ultra-violence.

Embassytown China Mieville
Solid science fiction imagining. A truly alien [...]

Dark Continents Publishing is not your average publisher, though it’s indicative of a growing trend to self publish fuelled by the rise and rise of ebooks and easy to use internet publishing sites like Smashwords. As a result the normal channels of publishing have been thrown wide open. The ‘gate keepers’ – that is, mainstream publishing [...]

There’s something deceptively simple about the writing in Managing Death the second Death Works novel from Brisbane based author Trent Jamieson. Like the first book, Death Most Definite, it’s a quick, bright and breezy read; fast paced, enjoyable, with good gags and a plot that goes deeper than you at first imagine. It’s only when you [...]

Transformation Space is the fourth and final instalment of Marianne De Pierre’s Sentients of Orion series, the galaxy spanning tale of Mira Fedor, symbiont ship pilot, who fled her embattled planet to get some help after an alien invasion. After a relatively slow start in book one, the series really took off in the second and [...]