Jonny Nexus

Category: Reviews

  • YouTube Review: Encounter With Tiber and The Return

    My review of two books by the science-fiction author John Barnes (who’s not that John Barnes) and Buzz Aldrin (who is that Buzz Aldrin). In it, I compare and contrast them, describing how they start from similar premises (a then near-future accident to the space shuttle Columbia) but then go in very different directions.

  • The Gutter Prayer, by Gareth Hanrahan

    I’ve just (belatedly!) ordered the signed, limited Goldsboro Books edition of the Gutter Prayer, the debut mainstream novel of my very good friend1 Gareth Hanrahan (actually Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, but that’s apparently too long a name to fit on a novel’s cover). Limited edition as it is, it costs £24.99, but I think that’s actually excellent…

  • Film Review: Suicide Squad

    Director: David Ayer Writer: David Ayer Stars: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie Shit, epically so.

  • Review: The Fat Controller’s Busy Day

    One of the hazards of having a day job, a writing career on the side, and a two-year old daughter, is that it does rather cut into the time you have available to actually read fiction, let alone review it. But I do feel that as an author it’s important to try and “put something…

  • Thoughts On Recently Read Books

    In no particular order, and in no way a complete list, here are some thoughts on some books I’ve read recently. These aren’t quite reviews, and I’m not therefore going to be scoring them. * * * * * Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes Like David Devereux’s Hunter’s Moon, which I’m…

  • Adam Marek’s Instruction Manual For Swallowing

    A few weeks ago, I went to Tales of the Decongested, an event about which I didn’t blog because I was more concerned over the disappearance of my entire website, due to what turned out to be some kind of idiotic cock-up by my hosting company. So what I didn’t mention was that I met…