What’s The Deal With Interactive Storytelling?
Topher Chapman
What’s the deal with interactive storytelling? Glad you asked. If you know me, you’ll know that I’ve been making video games since I was a kid, banging away at the…
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Princess of Blood by Tom Lloyd – Cover Reveal
Tom Lloyd
So here it is: the cover of Princess of Blood in all its monstery goodness. After the brilliant Stranger of Tempest cover we of course went back to Jon McCoy…
Cruising the Cosmere: Visit Magical Arelon!
Sonia Grace
Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for Elantris. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish the book. I just read Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: Secret History, and it…
Tough Travels: Assassins
Laura M. Hughes
Back in 2014, Nathan Barnhart created a weekly feature called ‘Tough Travels’, which he hosted over on Fantasy Review Barn. Inspired by The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne…
The David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy: 2017 Shortlists
Michael Everest
Voting on the shortlists closes on Friday 2nd June. Cast your votes on the Gemmell Awards official website. The awards will be presented on the 15th July 2017, at the…
Sieges and Siegecraft – Part Two: Defenders
Aaron Miles
Shore up the defences, man the walls and get those supplies inside! Last time, we looked at siegecraft from the attackers’ side; this time, we’re on the defensive. There are…
Disabilities In SFF: More Or Less Than Fine?
Leo Elijah Cristea
Quite some time ago, I wrote a pretty vague and largely naive (in that I missed a lot) article about disability in SFF. It was exclusively about physical disabilities and…
Introducing: Cruising The Cosmere
Show of hands: how many of you started reading Brandon Sanderson’s books with no idea of what the Cosmere would be? When I picked up Mistborn way back before his…
I Know This is Fantasy-Faction, but Science-fiction Matters Too
Geoff Matthews
I don’t think I have a strange reading history. I’m pretty sure it is the same as many other people. At a young age I started reading books, because that’s…
Books Do Not Sell Without Covers
Joshua Robertson
The secret to book selling is not so secret anymore. The answer lies in the unspoken pact between an author and reader, which agrees a great cover equals excellent writing.…
2016 Aurealis Award Winners
Nicola Alter
The winners of the 2016 Aurealis Awards were announced on Friday as part of the Swancon Convention in Perth, Australia. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! For those who…
Worlds Within Worlds – Part One: Creating Texts for Secondary Worlds
Christopher Mahon
The stories of H. P. Lovecraft are filled with references to all kinds of bizarre, ancient books, some fictional, some real: Abdul Alhazred’s Necronomicon, the Pnakotic Manuscripts, Trithemius’ Poligraphia, Giambattista…