Mike O'Driscoll
Book reviews at IZ Digital
I've reviewed two new books for Interzone Digital. Both are short story collections published by Black Shuck Books under their 'Shadows'...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Aug 8
- 4 min
England's Weird Dream of Oppression.
I've just returned from the Dolomites in Northern Italy, where myself and Yvonne hiked the 120 kilometre Alta Via 1 route from Lago di...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5
- 5 min
Chimera ... less than the sum of its parts.
Recently finished this SF novel by Alice Thompson, the first time I've encountered her work. I had high expectations for this book,...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jun 20
- 1 min
Fifty Forgotten Books
My review of R.B. Russell's Fifty Forgotten Books is now live at Interzone Digital, here.
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jun 9
- 3 min
Fifty Forgotten Books
I've been reading this recent book by R.B. Russell, founder and co-owner of the indpendent publisher Tartarus Press. It's a fascinating...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Hunger
My latest story, 'Hunger', appears live today at Litro Magazine, my first appearance there. Both the print magazine and the online site...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Don't Go into the Dark
Just posted at Interzone Digital, the online presence of Interzone magazine, are my reviews of Stephen Graham Jones' latest, Dont Fear...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Bang! Review.
Mario Guslandi has posted the first review of Bang! An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction, at Black Gate horror and fanatasy website. He...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Christopher Fowler - RIP
It was a shock to hear of the death a couple of days of ago of Christopher Fowler, a much loved and admired genre writer, who became more...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jan 26
- 1 min
BANG! An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction
I'm thrilled to have a new story, Highway 29, inspired by the track from Bruce Springsteen's classic Ghost of Tom Joad album, coming soon...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Philip K. Dick - Collected Stories
I've been rereading some of the stories in Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking Dangerous Visions anthology and came across Philip K. Dick's...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Dec 22, 2022
- 7 min
Candescent Blooms
Candescent Blooms could hardly have been better chosen as a title for this latest collection from Andrew Hook (Frequencies of Existence,...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Nov 22, 2022
- 4 min
Songs and Stories.
I'm delighted to announce that a new story, 'Highway 29' will appear in the Andrew Hook edited anothology of new crime fiction, Bang, due...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Nov 1, 2022
- 11 min
Not Peripheral...
But something more - maybe the best SF show on TV right now. Judging from the critical response to the first two episodes of Prime's new...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Helpmeet
by Naben Ruthnum I wish I could say that I enjoyed this short novella more than I did. It's published by Undertow, usually a pretty sure...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
The Only Good Indians, & Mexican Gothic
*contains spoilers Both Mexican Gothic and The Only Good Indians have been on my 'to read' list for the last year or so. I had been...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Blood, Guns and Sex.
I've added a story to the fiction page. Originally written back in 1997, this is one I sold to Thomas Roche for an anthology series...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5, 2022
- 1 min
Moriah
This weekend, I finished reading Daniel Mills' haunting piece of American Gothic, Moriah, from Zagava Press. You can read my thoughts on...
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Mike O'Driscoll
- Jul 5, 2022
- 5 min
Not making sense of death.
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." Leonardo da Vinci. Spoiler alert. This post is about...
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