SO THIRSTY by Rachel Harrison
Possession…witches…werewolves…Satanic Cults, Rachel Harrison has covered some of the top iconic characters/tropes/creatures of the horror genre. With So Thirsty, she tackles perhaps the most…
BLACKWATER (Part 1): The Flood by Michael McDowell
The story of this book’s publication in the UK is a long and complicated one, but keeping it simple, Blackwater was first published in…
DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1)
LitRPG is one of the biggest subgenres to emerge in the last decade or so. A subset of the fantasy/science fiction genre, the story…
Guest post – J.W. Hawkins about his new book Tales of the Wythenwood
J.W. Hawkins talks about his new book Tales of the Wythenwood which is being released today. — I love words. This is why I…
LONG LIVE EVIL by Sarah Rees Brennan (The Time of Iron #1)
Portal Fantasies are one of the most traditional kinds of fantasies, those in which characters from “the real world” find themselves transported to a…
HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING by Django Wexler (Dark Lord Davi #1)
Imagine dying 237 times and waking up in the same place after you are killed. You have memories of what you’ve done in your…
NEWS: British Fantasy Society Award 2024 Nominees Announced
Seems to be an Award-announcement-heavy week! The British Fantasy Society have announced their short list for the Awards this year. Based on 2023 publications…
THE DARK WE KNOW by Wen-yi Lee
Getting the gang back together…a common, well-trod theme in fiction is how Wen-yi Lee’s debut novel, The Dark We Know begins. Isadora Chang reluctantly…
NEWS: World Fantasy Award nominations announced
The 2023 World Fantasy Awards nominations have been announced. Final Ballot and Life Achievement Award Winners LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Ginjer Buchanan Jo Fletcher NOVEL…
NEWS: Hugo Awards 2024 Winners Announced
The winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer were announced on…
DEEP BLACK by Miles Cameron
Deep Black is the much-anticipated sequel to one of my favourite SF books in recent years, Artifact Space (review HERE.) I had high hopes…
THE MERCY OF GODS by James S. A. Corey
I think it is safe to say that The Mercy of Gods is one of the most eagerly anticipated science fiction novels of the…
SWORD CATCHER by Cassandra Clare
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, Kel is an orphan, stolen from his old impoverished life to become Prince Conor Aurelian’s body-double. As his…
THE DISSONANCE by Shaun Hamill
Shaun Hamill burst onto the genre scene with A Cosmology of Monsters in 2019, about which I said, “Hamill impressed the hell out of…
News: Hugo Awards 2024 Announcement
The Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administration Subcommittee, led by Hugo Administrator Nicholas Whyte, has today issued a statement concerning a number of fraudulent votes in…
Guest post – 40 Years of Finding the Best New Talent by Grant Bremner
Imagine discovering what author Robert Sawyer calls “the best of the best culled for you, curated and selected in a single volume every year.” …
ECHO OF WORLDS by M. R. Carey
The first book of this duology, Infinity Gate, was perhaps my favourite read of 2023, so this second part has a great deal to…
Exclusive: TJ Klune Short Story
Next week sees the publication by Tor of Ravensong in paperback, the second book in TJ Klune’s Green Creek series. Ravensong is a…
THE DAUGHTER’S WAR by Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue Thief #0)
It has been roughly three years since Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief released to great acclaim (including a very positive review from yours truly). …
ART of MARVEL Studios: THE AVENGERS (ASSEMBLE) by Jason Surrell
Titan Books are rereleasing the 24 books of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a unified set. This is the fifth, following Captain America: The…
FOUL DAYS by Genoveva Dimova (The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters Volume 1)
Bulgarian/Balkan myth comes alive (or undead) in Foul Days by Genovena Dimova, which is the first part of her Witch’s Compendium of Monsters duology…
THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLERS GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS by Sarah Brooks
I have always fancied travelling on one of those luxury train journeys. Stepping into the footsteps left by explorer Michael Palin (or perhaps less…
2023 Nebula Awards winners announced
The Nebula Awards ® for 2023, presented on June 8th 2024, have been announced. These results are as follows: 2023 Nebula Awards® Best Novel…