Guest post: To Boldly Go by Anthony Brum
Space: The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out…
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Interview transcript subject zero-one alpha-Z9 – a guest post by Colin Sinclair
Invaders From Beyond was released from Abaddon last month. Here we find three unlikely invasion stories from authors Colin Sinclair, Tim Major and Julian…
Guest post: What have the Daleks ever done for us by Anthony Brum
Change is in the air, or rather, in time and space. A new Doctor will soon be flinging the TARDIS around the cosmos, across…
Guest post: Mad Science and Modern Warfare by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ironclads is set in the near future. There’s a lot in the geopolitics and social elements of the book that is a direct, albeit…
Article: Exploring the Ecological Weird, Part 2
Click here for Part 1 It’s that time of the year in the West, with shorter days and gloomier weather, when our imaginations might…
Well Red: A Canon of Martian Fiction in English by Jack McDonald Burnett
So you want to read all the important fiction written about or set on the fourth planet from the sun? I suggest the following…
Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: Stranger Fillings by The Muffin Brothers
One of the oddest arrivals for Hallowe’en this year at Hobbit Towers – Stranger Fillings is a parody of the television series, but also…
Guest post: Sci-Fi warns us we are all doomed, but let’s enjoy the ride by Anthony Brum
Describing how the world will end and the fate of mankind has been the subject of much discussion, often in the format of a…
Guest post: Writing Horror by G.A. Minton
Horror is defined as a feeling of great shock, fear, and worry caused by something extremely unpleasant; an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Guest Post: A Conversation With My Younger Self by Julie E. Czerneda
SFFWorld is currently running a giveaway for a complete set of The Clan Chronicles. Link below the article The beautiful thing about completing a story,…
Guest post: Three-Tier World-Building by Scott Warren
World-building is a double-edged sword, especially for the inexperienced writer. On one hand having a fleshed out and internally consistent world is crucial to…
Five Surprising Things I Learned about Writing from Engineers by Dorothy A. Winsor
For a number of years, my day job included conducting ethnographic research on the writing engineers did at work. You would think writing up…
