Year: 2023 April 15, 2023
Emily Tesh is the winner of the World Fantasy Award Best Novella for Silver in the Wood in 2020, an Astounding Award winner and…
April 8, 2023
The winners for the British Science Fiction Association Awards have been announced. The Awards given in 2023 are for publications from 2022. The winners…
April 8, 2023
With this third book in the Take Them to the Stars series, which began with A History of What Comes Next (reviewed HERE) and…
April 4, 2023
Emperor of Ruin is the finale to Django Wexler’s Burningblade & Silvereye trilogy, bringing the siblings Maya and Gyre separated at a young age…
March 28, 2023
Death Magic, necromancy…often seen as dark and potentially evil methods of magic, but that’s not quite the case in Hannah Whitten’s Nightshade Crown saga,…
March 25, 2023
Some of you may know that I’ve been a fan of ‘M’s for a while. From Felix Castor (back in 2007) to The Girl…
March 20, 2023
Forget binge-watching. Louise Carey’s Inscape series is the binge-read series you need in your life. Like all memorable reads, Louise Carey makes…
March 16, 2023
Gems lurk in dusty corners, and the recent revival of classic crime fiction has seen books scaling the bestseller charts after being out of…
March 11, 2023
It should really go without saying that for a voracious book reader (like myself!) books about books, or libraries, or bibliophiles should be an…
March 9, 2023
Congratulations to finalists for the 58th Annual Nebula Awards. Nebula Award for Novel Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (Cryptid; Tor) Spear, Nicola Griffith (Tordotcom)…
March 8, 2023
The nominations for the British Science Fiction Association have been announced. The Awards given in 2023 are for publications from 2022. They are: BEST…
March 7, 2023
There are forgotten characters in all of literature, or maybe minor characters who had impact on the story in which they appear, but are…
March 6, 2023
“Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you’re dead.” I picked this up on hearing of Chris’s death last week.…
February 25, 2023
In which we return to the land of The Empire of the Wolf. After the events in Galen’s Vale (as given in the first…
February 14, 2023
The island nation of Thanet is still in turmoil, the Everlorn Empire is still holding on to power while the rebellion is fractured. The…
February 7, 2023
Johnny Compton’s The Spite House is a novel about loss, death, small town and family history. It is dark and keeps its secrets hidden…
February 4, 2023
I think that Ramsey Campbell is one of our genre authors who should be better known. Although you might not recognise the name, he’s…
January 31, 2023
Epic Fantasy is a genre of imagination, a genre of metaphor, a genre that acts a doorway to new worlds that may have a…
January 28, 2023
One of my favourite old SF authors, Sir Arthur C Clarke, once said “How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth,” when it is clearly…
January 24, 2023
Found Media (including Found Footage films) has been a growing subset of fiction, particularly the horror genre for quite a while. It has found…