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- A new novel by Rachel Harrison is always cause for excitement. Granted, she’s published four novels to date and I’ve only read two of them, but based on those two, all I need to know about a new Rachel Harrison novel is that there’s a new novel with her name on it. In Black Sheep,…
- As announced on the BFS website: https://britishfantasysociety.org/british-fantasy-award-winners-2023, announced on Saturday 16th September 2023 at Fantasycon. The winners are highlighted in red. The Legends of Fantasycon Award (selected by the organisers of Fantasycon) goes to: Roy Gray from TTA Press for his ongoing support of Fantasycon. The Karl Edward Wagner Award (selected by the BFS committee)…
- It may not have escaped your attention, readers, that fiction likes its little labels, whether it be ‘grimdark’, ‘cosy fantasy’, ‘BookTok’ or the like. The latest I’ve come across is ‘Romantasy’, or perhaps that should be ‘ROMANTASY’, as it seems to appear on my latest review covers. It seems to have caught people’s attention of…
- Isabel Cañas’s second novel, Vampires of El Norte is a blend of historical fiction, romance, and of course horror. Set amidst the backdrop of the Mexican-American War in 1837, the story focuses on the seemingly star-crossed love of Nena and Nestor. When they are teenagers out in the night, they are attacked by a vampire,…
- Welcome, my friends, and read about a classic, a tale that deals with those ancient tropes where ‘old’ meets ‘new’. The High Crusade is a story that combines science fiction with history, something that the author Poul Anderson (1926 – 2001) was known to be an enormous fan of. This fairly short novel, first published…
- My uncle owned a shop, the Occultorium, at the top of Clifton Hill. The name was spelled out in Gothic lettering on the marquee, while below, in elegant script, the slogan: Investigating the dark cubbyholes of otherworldly experience … Uncle C insisted on that dot-dot-dot at the end, even though he knew it threw off…
- Double acts – they’re a Fantasy staple, aren’t they? I mention this because they are an important element of the latest collection by Garth Nix. You may know Gareth best from his Sabriel / Old Kingdom series or his young adult series The Keys to the Kingdom. Most lately I’ve been enjoying his Left-handed Booksellers…
- Adrian Tchaikovsky is back – though we would argue the Arthur C Clarke Award winner never left the Science Fiction scene. SFFWorld is pleased to be able to share the cover for Alien Clay: The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there…
- Chuck Tingle is best known for his “Tinglers” short erotic novels and their wonderful photoshopped cover art, for his outspoken message that “Love is Real,” and his relative anonymity. That theme of “Love is Real” is at the heart of his major press debut, Camp Damascus. From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing…
- Richard S. Swan impressed the hell out of me with The Justice of Kings, the opening salvo of his Empire of the Wolf trilogy. It was an immersive, character-driven fantasy novel that told the tale of a paladin-like investigator (Sir Konrad Vonvalt) through the eyes of his clerk (Helena Sedanka) that showed us a world…