science fiction
The Locked Web is out on Kindle – plus an easter egg
Last year, I was invited to join the Future Chronicles project as a contributing author. If you haven’t heard of it, the Future Chronicles is one of the best things to happen to independent science fiction in recent years – a huge project with dozens of contributors, publishing anthologies with
Book review and interview: Low Fidelity by Riccardo Mori
This article was originally published on pinnacleeditorial.co.uk. Since I have merged that domain with alexroddie.com, I am gradually republishing significant articles from the Pinnacle Blog. In this post I’d like to introduce my readers to an innovative and talented author. Riccardo Mori runs the blogs Morrick.
An exciting new alternate history anthology out now
Alt.History 102, a new Future Chronicles anthology curated by Samuel Peralta, is out now – and it contains a new short story, The Locked Web, written by me. I’ve always been fascinated by alternate history. It’s a subgenre of speculative fiction, and asks a simple ‘what if?’ question
Book review: the Auto Series by David Wailing
Auto and Auto 2 by David Wailing Recently I read Auto 2 by David Wailing and I was about to post this review when I realised I had never actually reviewed the first volume in this remarkable series. To address this oversight, here’s a combo review of both volumes.
Crime and Punishment is here!
Our second speculative fiction anthology, Crime and Punishment, is now available on Kindle. I’m thrilled to introduce this collection of tales – sometimes dark, sometimes though-provoking. There will always be crime. There will always be those who covet what others possess, or who are driven to acts of violence through
Cold Witness now available on Kindle
Cold Witness By Alex Roddie Cold Witness, my first science fiction short story, has now been published as a standalone title on Kindle. This piece was first published as part of the No Way Home speculative fiction anthology, and is a twisted tale that has been described as ‘techno Lovecraft’
‘Crime and Punishment’ cover reveal
Last year, I teamed up with Lucas Bale and a group of talented writers to produce No Way Home, an anthology of speculative fiction on the theme of being stranded and cut off from home. The project was a success and the book received some great reviews. Now I can
Book review: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
HYPERION By Dan Simmons Hyperion is one of those books that has been on my to-read list forever. I’m now an Audible subscriber, so I took the opportunity to listen to the audiobook while hiking the Tour of Monte Rosa in September 2015. Is this classic work of science
Book review: Ruin by Harry Manners
Ruin(Book 1 of the Ruin Saga)by Harry Manners Post-apocalyptic fiction is popular at the moment – so popular, in fact, that it takes a great deal for a post-apocalyptic story to stand out from the crowd. We’ve become well aquainted with zombie apocalypses, nuclear apocalypses, and more recently
Book review and interview: A Shroud of Night and Tears by Lucas Bale
A Shroud of Night and Tears (Beyond the Wall, Book 3) by Lucas Bale Over the past year or so, it’s been my privilege to follow the career of science fiction writer Lucas Bale. In my review of The Heretic, his first novel, I concluded by saying that “… I