Category: Book Review

Me and Her: a Memoir Of Madness by Karen Tyrrell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Australian Karen Tyrrell has bi-polar, an illness that affects

  The Bottomless River begins in a small town in rural Victoria in Australia. Three mates, Tom, Jen and the male point of view character,

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Dervish House’s big plus is its setting, a near future Instanbul, during

Under the Dome by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I finally finished Under the Dome’s 880 pages. What an epic, so much

Turing Evolved by David Kitson My rating: 4 of 5 stars A really good read. Full of fresh ideas about artificial intelligence. The central theme

Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction And Fantasy 4 by Bill Congreve My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had read all three of the previous

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow My rating: 3 of 5 stars Cory Doctorow was a very enthusiastic panelist at Aussiecon4 last year. He tended to

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars A brilliant book which is perfect for the times we live

Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Set in Brisbane (where I lived for five years so I was familiar