Guy Haley's Blog

Okay, so it’s more than a year since I posted a blog post on this website, and if I’m honest with you, this one here is likely to be the last. I’ve tried to muster up the enthusiasm to write material for the site, but although I’ve been very touched by the comments from those […]

Brexit had me hiding from social media these last few weeks. It’s precisely the sort of complicated issue that is impossible to discuss on the confirmation bias machine that is the modern web, so I’ve steered well clear. Potted version of my opinion runs thusly – I can see both sides of the argument, and […]

Out this week is book two of the Dreaming Cities trilogy, The Ghoul King. In a dark, post-apocalyptic future, mysterious angels rule the shattered North American continent in the name of the Lord. The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world – whatever that […]

A review from #SFX249. TWO AND A HALF STARS Author: Will McIntosh Publisher: Orbit 482pp Genetically engineered pudding When telepathic “starfish” aliens invade Earth, humanity is in big trouble. Our only hope is the genetically engineered defenders, created to have unreadable minds. But what do you do with a new race created for war when […]

As promised, here are a couple of beastmen. Me and my regular gaming partner are playing a little Path to Glory campaign at the moment. As I’ve bought a fair few beastmen to play with in Age of Sigmar, I had to include some in my warband. The campaign has given me the excuse (if […]

A review from #SFX257. THREE AND A HALF STARS Editor: Jesse Bullington (editor) Publisher: Stone Skin Press 280pages Love letters to Lovecraft If your skin crawls at Lovecraft pastiche or sub-par mythos shenanigans, don’t be put off this book. The premise is intelligent – to engage with Lovecraft through his essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”. […]

From SFX #254. FOUR STARS Author: Peter Watts Publisher: Head of Zeus Pages: 761pp Human obsolescence beckons. Firefall is by turns brilliant and merciless, a science-fictionalised philosophical argument that human sentience is neither inevitable nor necessary, and that freewill is an illusion. Dressed up, naturally, with aliens and spaceships and such. Originally two books, it’s released […]

  A review from #SFX 249. Funny, I can’t remember this book at all. Sounds good though. FOUR STARS Author: Tom Harper Publisher: Harper Voyager Ice Station Hero Cheerfully referencing a host of polar-set SF stories from Frankenstein to the Thing, Zodiac Station starts out as a mystery, segues through the spy genre into techno-thriller territory […]

Wotcha. I don’t really have much to say today, only a sense that I should say something seeing as I’ve been away a while from this here blog. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I say this periodically, you must be used to it by now. I’ve been busy this year. Already in 2016 I’ve written 250,000 words, […]

Wassup? Been busy, as I said last time I was here. I’ve three novels to write in four months (+++STATUS UPDATE 1.4 NOVELS COMPLETE +++BLEEP+++), and also my dog, Magnus died. I mentioned it on twitter, but I was so cut up about it I didn’t feel like sharing in the modern-day way with a […]