Kill or Cure: Medicine and Healing in SFF
Steff Humm
Humans are fragile creatures. Flesh breaks easily and even the most healthy, brawny and athletic of us fall prey to sickness from time to time. Depending on the severity of…
Steff Humm
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
It’s been a year since Peter Jackson took us back to Middle Earth and Bilbo Baggins set out on An Unexpected Journey. After mixed reviews, the consensus seemed to be…
The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
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…
When YOU Were The Hero – An Adventure In Gamebooks
Gamebooks aren’t something you see much of these days but back in the 80s and 90s they were doing a roaring trade all over the world as readers embraced the…
The Straight Razor Cure by Daniel Polansky
Eloquence goes a long way towards making amends for selfish immorality, which is why the protagonist of Daniel Polansky’s The Straight Razor Cure makes the book enjoyable despite his general…
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley
“Extreme” seems like a pretty loose term in a genre where the only limit is the mind’s capacity for imagination, but Mike Ashley’s anthology, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy,…
The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien
My journey into fantasy began with Tolkien, which I imagine is the case for a lot of people. His legendary works were a deep foundation for modern fantasy, and when…
Stray Souls by Kate Griffin
If you have any doubts about the ethereal nature of urban living then you need to be reading Kate Griffin. The often brilliant Matthew Swift series, starring a formerly dead…
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
Eastern settings have an exotic magic all of their own even without traditional fantasy elements. From the title and beautiful Japanese-style cover art alone (variants of which can be found…
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
While fantasy is clearly a genre of startling variation, it rarely gets as exotic as Throne of the Crescent Moon. Moving away from the familiar medieval lands of most of…
The Fade by Chris Wooding
The opportunity for creative worldbuilding is one of the many (many, many, many) things that makes fantasy the bestest genre in the known ‘verse. Discovering a new world, especially a…
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane Edited by Jonathan Oliver
Magic can take so many forms and shapes that the possibilities for stories on the subject are seemingly endless. Everyone has different ideas of magic; from rabbit toting magicians and…