The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer
Reviewed by Robert Runté Robert Sawyer is Canada's best known science fiction writer and has a huge fan following. His books are so...
Off the Record, edited by John Metcalf
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Off the Record presents six award-winning Canadian authors describing what led them to be writers. As it...
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. by Jeremy Mercer
Reviewed by Gail M. Murray Having visited the legendary bookstore in September 2023, I was delighted to come across this memoir by...
Spy Girls. Joanna Vander Vlugt
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin Joanna Vander Vlugt believes that all books should be works of art. She’s got a leg up there, being an...
Smoke by Nicola Winstanley
Reviewed by Jerry Levy Nicola Winstanley is the author of the delightfully-named children’s books How to Give Your Cat a Bat: In Five...
Welcome to the March 2024 issue of ORB
As we experience an unseasonably warm winter in Eastern Canada, it brings to mind the need to review fiction about our changing climate....
The Philosopher Stories by Jerry Levy
Reviewed by Ian Thomas Shaw Jerry Levy is a writer whose work I have followed for some time and have known for at least a decade. I...
Fifteen Thousand Pieces by Gina Leola Woolsey
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann On September 2, 1998, a Swissair jet went down off the coast of Nova Scotia. Rescuers responded quickly,...
The Lost Expedition by Douglas Smith
Reviewed by Robert Runté The Lost Expedition is the third and final volume in the Dream Rider trilogy. The first two novels, (The Hollow...
The Vile Narrows by Jackie Elliott
Reviewed by Wendy Hawkin If you've never read Jackie Elliott's Coffin Cove cozy mysteries, you're in for a salty treat. Each story in...