The Nebula Awards Showcase 2017
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by…
Year: 2017
Guest post – Take Some Time. Take a Little More by Karen Heuler
A while ago, let’s say a few years ago, I was recovering from surgery and pretty much immobile. I had no choice but to…
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Must admit, I didn’t know that Martha Wells wrote SF. I do know her Fantasy books (The Cloud Roads, Books of the Raksura),…
Awards: Hugo Winners 2017 announced
From the 75th Worldcon, Helsinki, on 11th August 2017: Best Novel (2,078 nominating ballots) WINNER: The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) All the…
Guest post: Just a Spoonful of Horror Helps the Fantasy Go Down by Gareth K Pengelly
I was a teenager when I first read Graham Masterton’s ‘The Pariah.’ Young, innocent (or so some would have you believe) and very much…
AT THE TABLE OF WOLVES by Kay Kenyon
World War II, the years leading up to it, and the aftermath is [obviously] one of the most historic eras of modern human history.…
Article: 20th Century Fox Brought the World the Best Sci-fi Films and Series for Over Four Decades
20th Century Fox has produced and distributed some of the best science fiction screen entertainment ever seen. It has distributed such classic hits as…
Article: Let’s Party Like It’s… 1962!
One of the great things as a Staff Member at SFFWorld is that we get asked to do all sorts of things. Many of…
Guest post: Manufacturing a Political Future by Jay Posey
When I was a young, starry-eyed lad dreaming of becoming an author someday, an enormous amount of appeal came from the idea of creating…
A Fascinating Window Into Sean Stone – Host of “Buzzsaw”
Interview by Felicity Harley I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Sean Stone (eldest son of Oliver), and the host of Buzzsaw, a series on…
THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES by Anna Smith Spark
A court ruled by an Emperor-in-Name only, a murderous intrigue plotting to topple the Emperor, led by Lord Orhan Emmereth, an exiled murdering youth…
Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
Strange Practice is a novel filled with monsters – to quote the book, “in its descriptive, rather than pejorative, sense”. This means that…
News: Arthur C Clarke Award 2017 Winner Announced
The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2016 has been announced:
Darien: Empire of Salt by C F Iggulden
You may not (at first) recognise the author’s name: but readers of Historical Fiction may know of Conn Iggulden, author of nearly 20 fiction…
The Delicate Dependancy by Michael Talbot
I read my first vampire novel as a college student for an assignment. Forced to take a liberal arts class, I chose The Formation…
THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by R.S. Belcher
Jumping into a series for the first time at book 3 may not be the wisest reading choice, but that’s exactly what I did…
News: 2017 David Gemmell Awards winners
The 2017 David Gemmell Awards winners have been announced: The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel Warbeast, Gav Thorpe (Black Library) The Morningstar Award…
Interview with Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of the Hell Divers series
We have talked to Nicholas Sansbury Smith as his second book in the Hell Divers series, Ghosts is about to be published. First of…
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
In crime novels one of the most common scenarios of the ‘whodunnit’ is ‘the locked-room mystery’ – that is where a crime (usually…
ALONE by Scott Sigler (Generations Trilogy #3)
In Alone, Scott Sigler brings his powerful and gripping Generations trilogy to a close, a science fiction saga that finds humanity having advanced far…
