Godzilla Movie Trailer & Monster vs Monster?
Overlord
I know a lot of you probably didn’t enjoy the last Godzilla film… it was cheesy and it lacked any real depth, but having been fascinated with dinosaurs and the…
December 2013
The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Steff Humm
Never mind variety, anticipation is the true spice of life and is something Peter V. Brett really knows how to inspire. We waited with baited breath for the third instalment…
Sanderson shows Rothfuss a real wordcount…
When it was announced a few months back that the release date for Brandon Sanderson’s second book in his Stormlight Archive series, Words of Radiance, had been moved all the…
Brazilian Mistborn Cover… Rocks!
A few years ago I was really excited when the UK had their Brandon Sanderson books freshened up with some really nice abstract covers. Sanderson’s work has always been a…
A GOOD Game of Thrones game is coming!
Lets be honest… so far all of the Game of Thrones games have sucked. A Game of Thrones: Genesis, a strategy game, was uninspired and boring; whilst Game of Thrones,…
Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell
Hierath
The attack macaque is back! Fresh (well, ish) from saving the world from nuclear meltdown in Ack-Ack Macaque, our titular monkey is having a bit of a meltdown of his…
‘Shannara’ Pilot in Development
It seems logical that following the success of A Game of Thrones television studios would be jumping on the multi-book series of the fantasy genre, but none have been confirmed…
Government Open Consultation on PLR: My Idea
In an article I wrote yesterday I spoke about how British authors are entitled to just over 6 pence (10 cents) per book loaned from local authority run libraries through…
Shadow of the Colossus – Video Game Review
Juan de Dios Dougnac
Thanks to Sony’s marvelous PSN Plus service, I recently got the chance to play Shadow of the Colossus, one of the great classics of the Playstation 2 era that, in…
Public Lending Right Payments frozen – Authors hit by Government’s library cuts.
Earlier this week I picked up on a Tweet by one of Britain’s best loved Fantasy Authors, Juliet McKenna. Juliet was somewhat dismayed about a Government announcement – no surprise…
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Mike Shackle
Welcome back to Low Town and the world of the Warden, a disgraced secret police enforcer turned drug dealer. It’s not a place for the faint-hearted but for anyone who…
Subgenre Bingo – Steampunk
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
For a lot of people, steampunk is less a speculative fiction variant and more a fashion and decorating aesthetic. That’s okay (far be it for me to say it isn’t)…