Simon Bisson

Recent Reads: Prophet - Remission. Brandon Graham's reinvention of a Rob Liefeld supersoldier is far future graphic SF, with art from Simon Roy and others. A cloned warrior wakes from cryosleep to cross a changed Earth and reboot a collapsed interstellar civilisation. Space barbarians à la Moebius.

Recent Reads: Salvation's Child. Adrian Tchaikovsky's graphic prequel to his Final Architecture series opens in the chaos of Earth's evacuation. Marta and her daughter Xavi bounce between worlds until Xavi hears - something. This is the true story of the miracle at Forthbridge, messier than legend.

Recent Reads: Side Quested Book 1. Ale Presser and KB Spangler's webcomic collected, as Charlie, Leopold, and Robin meet and start their quest to find the source of magic - and themselves. A coming of age with Babs the Dragon and confusing families that know more than they say. A delight indeed.

Recent Reads: New Adventures From The Trigan Empire - Book 1. Michael Carroll has a big job, continuing the classic 70s comic strip. Sensibly he's jumped a generation, pulling on threads from the original stories to bring new jeopardy to the Trigans, and to Janno's family. A worthy successor indeed.

Recent Reads: Qalea Drop. Book 7 in Joel Shepherd's Spiral Wars series. As the stakes get higher, the cast gets bigger. On one side, the Corbi evacuation gets unwanted Reeh attention, on the other, Phoenix is hunting a lost AI queen that may hold the key to the biggest threat yet. Gripping stuff.

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Recent Reads: Metal Hurlant - Paradise Lost. Another anthology of new and old translated graphic SF and fantasy from the classic French magazine. Great art, great stories, often taking the form of near-wordless pieces that I can only describe as tone poems. A showcase of the best of the Ninth Art.

Recent Reads: A Star Called The Sun. I recently found Simon Roy's graphic SF, and this collection of shorts from his broken future serve as an introduction to his art and his fiction. In the ruins of an interstellar empire humans and machines hide from posthuman gods. These are their small stories.

Recent Reads: Lightfall - The Dark Times. Tim Probert's saga continues. Kest is dead, and with the spirit gone, so are the lights. Bea and Cad hunt the lost sun across a dying world, only to find that the story of the lights is not what they've been told. Is the truth the light that will save Irpa?

Recent Reads: Boy, With Accidental Dinosaur. Ian McDonald's wonderful novella takes us across a fractured USA, where time travel gives us dinosaur rodeos. It's a poetic tale as Tif aims to become a buckaroo, riding a dino in the ring. A broken world with broken people, trying to fix themselves.

Recent Reads: The Power Fantasy - The End Of History. Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard's first arc ends.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned."

Yeats has it all.

Recent Reads: Lightfall - Shadow Of The Bird. Tim Probert's epic graphic fantasy continues, as Bea and Cad look for help from the water spirit Lorgon. It's a race against time, as bird spirit Kest is loose and the Lights are going out across Irpa. But what is truth and what is the right thing to do?

Recent Reads: Rando Splicer. Yes, the title of this volume in Joel Shepherd's Spiral Wars is silly, but the book is definitely not. The Phoenix's crew has to navigate more politics and hidden histories, as they deal with races that are more alien as they are so similar to humanity. The wars go on.

My latest at @InfoWorld@flipboard.social takes a look at Microsoft's Istio-based ambient service mesh for its Azure Kubernetes platform. It's an interesting set of tooling and worth investigating - after all, no sidecars!

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4155954/ease-into-azure-kubernetes-application-network.html?utm_date=20260416190606

Recent Reads: Lightfall - The Girl And The Galdurian. Tim Probert's epic graphic fantasy starts small, a girl foraging in a forest, and ends big, a battle for the last fragment of the sun. A war between literal light and dark is brewing, and anxious Bea is at the heart of things. Superb art, too.

Recent Reads: Habitat. Simon Roy's graphic novel is part of his sprawling future history, life after interstellar civilisational collapse. The titular habitat is lost between stars, warring tribes clinging to rituals of emergency rules in the ruins of utopia. A dark, hopeful tale, and oh, the art.

Recent Reads: The Lychford Collection Book 1. The first three of Paul Cornell's rural fantasy novellas, starting with The Witches of Lychford. Cotswold dramas where a small market town is connects us to other worlds, and the troubles that ensue as new guardians learm the rules. Midsomer fantasies.

Recent Reads: Lawless - Ballots Over Badrock. Dan Abnett's neo-noir space western sage continues, with elections, corruption, and a monster underneath the streets. Nothing is going right for Metta Lawson and she can only watch as her town goes to hell in its handbasket. But that doesn't stop her.

Recent Reads: Lawless Book 4 - Boom Town. Another volume of Dan Abnett’s neo-noir space western. Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss. Bedrock’s status as Freetown is threatened as with money comes corruption. Meanwhile old threats resurface, along with a musical. It all makes sense. Onward!