Clariel Officially Due for Release – Cover Revealed
Overlord
Garth Nix was one of the first fantasy authors I was lucky enough to stumble upon (way back in about 1999). The series, and one I ended up reading about…
Articles
The Importance of Multiple Structures
Tim Ellison
For the last few months I’ve been serving as an advisory editor for short fiction at Strangelet, a new speculative fiction journal based in Boston (first issue September 2014!). Submissions…
Children’s Fantasy: Eight of the Best – Part Two
Lucy Hounsom
This is Part Two of our look at Children’s Fantasy series. If you missed it, you can read Part One here. The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin Farther west…
Convention Survival Guide
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
At about this time of year, at least in my little section of the world, the season of genre conventions begins in full force. As such, it seems like a…
‘A Game of Thrones’ without Dragons?
Imagine if the gift of A Song of Ice & Fire was never given to the fantasy genre. Yes, it was, but humour me for a minute… In my eyes,…
The Slow Regard of Silent Things – Cover & Synopsis
Patrick Rothfuss fans are split into two camps. One camp is the ‘I want Patrick Rothfuss to write as much material as possible about The Four Corners of Civilization and…
Magic In Fantasy: Alternative Magic Systems
Leo Elijah Cristea
This is the forth article in our series on Magic in Fantasy. To read the earlier articles click the links below. Part One: Introduction Part Two: Real Magic Part Three:…
The Collapse of the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Zachary A. Matzo
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” Darth Vader to Lando in The Empire Strikes Back or Kathleen Kennedy, in a recent press release scuttling…
Pokémon – What Kind of Journey Is This?
Nathan T. Dean
Twitch Plays Pokémon changed a lot of things for a lot of people. Mostly it changed the website imgur into a paradise of pseudo-religious iconography for a Bird Jesus and…
David Gemmell Legend Awards Shortlist & Lunchtime Thoughts
It’s my lunch break and I’m sat here looking over the David Gemmell Legend Award shortlist. It’s truly great to see that in just a few years of the Gemmell’s…
Creating Shanghai Sparrow: Guest Post by Gaie Sebold
Gaie Sebold
The germination of a novel is a peculiar process. It seemed particularly so, for me, in the case of Shanghai Sparrow. When I first considered the possibility of a steampunk…
Children’s Fantasy: Eight of the Best – Part One
I do not write for children, but entirely for myself. Yet I do write for some children, and have done so from the beginning. This wonderful, contradictory statement comes from…