I believe ParSec’s issue 8 has now gone live:-

I’ve not yet delved into this issue but it ought to contain my reviews of Beethoven’s Assassins by Andrew Crumey, Chimera by Alice Thompson, and Umbilical by Teika Marija Smits.

While we’re on literary matters.

A few weeks ago I was contacted by the author Andrew Crumey who informed me he appreciated my comments on his prevous books, that he had a new one coming out eintitled Beethoven’s Assassins and that I ought to contact the publisher (Dedalus) to obtain a copy. (If they failed to oblige he would send me one himself.) What a nice man.

As you can see from my sidebar Dedalus did indeed oblige and I have started reading it.

Also received, this time from ParSec, is Chimera, a book written by Alice Thompson who was once a member of the band The Woodentops and has eight previous novels to her name. As far as I’m aware none of them was a work of Science Fiction. I confess I have not read any of them. I assume the review (once I write it) will appear in issue 8.