THESE DREAMING SPIRES Edited by Marie O Regan and Paul Kane
Last year I reviewed In These Hallowed Halls, an anthology that delved into the world of Dark Academia. (“Think Harry Potter, but for grown-ups”,…
Month: August 2025
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD EXCEPT ME by Django Wexler (Dark Lord Davi #2)
Beware of Spoilers for How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying… Sometimes, if you can’t beat them, join them. That’s where things…
THE UNSEEN by Ania Ahlborn
I’ve been enjoying Ania Ahlborn’s suspenseful, horror novels for a few years now so I was very happy when I was given the opportunity…
NEWS: Aldiss Award Nominees Announced.
The Aldiss Award is a new annual award to “acknowledge endeavours in literature and gaming, specifically around world building, in the science fiction & fantasy…
NEWS: Hugo Award 2025 Winners Announced
The winners of the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer were announced at…
WHERE THE AXE IS BURIED by Ray Nayler
Ray’s book, The Mountain in the Sea, was one of my favourite reads of 2023; an ecological story that combined science fiction with fiercely…
HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN by Daphne Fama
A novel set in the Phillippines in the 1980s has an eerily resonant backdrop to today in Daphne Fama’s emotionally charged horror debut, The…
LUCID by Oraine Johnson
What are dreams? Alternate realities, glimpses into ‘another place’, where our minds go free, or our brains trying to make sense of the previous…
