Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Night Vale Live – All Hail
As part of last year’s Countdown to Hallowe’en I reviewed two books of scripts edited into prose from this phenomenally successful twice-monthly podcast.…
Month: October 2017
A PLAGUE OF GIANTS by Kevin Hearne
Kevin Hearne, author of the enormously successful Iron Druid Chronicles, launches a new series with A Plague of Giants, the first installment of The…
Guest post: Time management for writers by Mareth Griffith
I want to talk a little bit about writing schedules. Specifically, writing schedules that work for busy people. People who have jobs, families, outside…
Guest post: Future Sounds – How science fiction shaped my music by Alex Storer
Over time, I have discovered many inseparable musical associations with books. For example, I discovered the work of British electronic music pioneer John Foxx…
Austral by Paul McAuley
Cli-fi. We had a discussion on it at SFFWorld a while back, and the impression was that, with global changes occurring, it was going…
The Big Guns: Top Ten Sci-Fi and Fantasy Weapons by Gareth K. Pengelly
Whether you’re a lowly hobbit or a grizzled space mercenary, it’s par for the course to face bloodthirsty minions and world-ending Big Bads. But…
My Top 10 Post-apocalyptic Books by Rod Little
The themes of all post-apocalyptic novels share some sympathies, in that they involve the survival of a small fraction of the world’s population. How…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017 – Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin Kiernan
The latest Countdown to Hallowe’en review from Randy is a recent novella, that he highly recommends: The Signalman picks up one of the photographs,…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The World of Lore by Aaron Mahnke
I’ll need to start this one with a bit of a story – but please bear with me, it has relevance. When I…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: ‘SALEM’S LOT by Stephen King
I have a long association with Stephen King’s fiction, as I may have mentioned in the past. I would say I’ve read about 80%…
Top 10 SFF Writers by Matthew Munson
Trying to choose a favourite top ten SFF authors is like trying to choose which breath of oxygen is your favourite; you simply couldn’t…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Interview with Gwendolyn Kiste
Gwendolyn Kiste’s shivery tales of horror and suspense have appeared in a vast number of magazines and anthologies, including Nightmare Magazine, Shimmer, Interzone, LampLight,…
THE CORE by Peter V. Brett (Demon Cycle #5)
The Core – the final novel in Peter V. Brett’s Demon Cycle saga and the place where the final confrontation between humanity and the…
New York Comic Con 2017 Convention Report
New York Comic Con 2017 is in the books and it was a crazy, fun hectic year as attendees have come to expect. Last…
Interview with The Cronian Incident author Matthew S. Williams
“A disgraced investigator on Mercury. A man’s disappearance on Titan. A conspiracy. Jeremiah soon learns his shot at redemption may cost him his life.” Matthew…
Guest post: The Character That Almost Wasn’t by Bill Ricardi
When you outline a fantasy story, you tend to create a cast of characters that will be memorable, will have the ability to move…
Interview with Age Of Assassins Author R.J Barker
Age of Assassins is the first of The Wounded Kingdom Series published by Orbit Books in the UK and US. R.J. Barker’s debut novel…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon
And just in time for our traditional Countdown to Hallowe’en… You may know Kim Newman from his Anno Dracula books, those culturally-dense stories of…
How to build an alternative Roman story by Alison Morton
Romans in the 21st century? Possibly provocative, but a perfectly feasible venture into alternative history fiction. How do you do this with no historical…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck by Alexander Laing
Today’s Countdown to Hallowe’en is a once near-forgotten novel that has been given a recent reissue: … [A]ll our reactions must also have been…
