Jeff VanderMeer's nameless biologist from Annihilation must be the spooky twin of the nameless botanist from Wells's A Modern Utopia...

Originally published in Interzone  268 . Didn’t read much new fiction in 2016. Two bookend books, Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself (Gollan...

The last thing I need is a thing, let alone a book, let alone a book of science fiction, let alone a collection of short sf stories. But I...

One of my favorite things pubbed in 2015 was Berit Ellingsen's Not Dark Yet . It's part of Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's "Win...

This is just about Ancillary Justice . I haven't read the other Ancillary books yet; everything's probably all different there! §...

SF Signal are posting (an expanded version, if I remember rightly) of my review of Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation today, first appeari...