Countdown to Hallowe’en 2017: IT by Stephen KIng (1986)
And so it begins: our now traditional SFFWorld countdown throughout October down to Hallowe’en. Each year we take the month to highlight things old…
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Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
This book begins with what we would think is a major event, the death of the last man on Earth. However, this is really…
Court of Twilight by Mareth Griffith
Six months ago, Ivy stumbled into the deal of a lifetime – great rent in a posh Dublin neighborhood and a flatmate, Demi, who…
Interview with Alan Dean Foster
Here’s a treat. Alan Dean Foster is an author of over a hundred books, including more than forty of his own novels (the…
Now We Are Six Hundred
Now We Are Six Hundred is a set of fifty Doctor Who poems over 118 pages, loosely based upon AA Milne’s Now We Are…
Guest Post: Mark A. Latham – My Five Favourite Authors
I’ve many times waxed lyrical about my favourite books, or most influential books, or most useful ones in terms of research. But choosing my…
The Lazarus Gate by Mark A Latham
Sometimes a book strikes you just by its entertainment value, sheer energy and enthusiasm, with a plot that takes the usual tropes and just…
The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but publishers like Tor are trying very hard to reintroduce readers to novellas – you know, something about…
Brian Aldiss
We’re just hearing of the sad death of Brian Aldiss, OBE on his 92nd birthday (19th August 2017). His impact on British SF is…
Article: What is it with the Hollywood comedy sidekicks?
In which our intrepid writer bemoans the trend that has belied many a Hollywood blockbuster… OK: this may read as a bit of a…
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…
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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
Improbable Botany Kickstarter
A new kickstarter campaign is up and running that readers of this site may find interesting: Improbable Botany, an anthology about alien plant invasions and…
The Rebellion’s Last Traitor by Nik Korpon
The idea that whoever wins the war writes the history is cruelly brought to life in The Rebellion’s Last Traitor. With ‘reach off the…
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Lavishly sensual, sexuality breathes throughout the book, with a humming roar of violence lurking in the background, or sometimes just exploding across the page…
