Within the Sanctuary of Wings by Marie Brennan
Steve Damarell
The fifth – and final – of Lady Trent’s memoirs is a difficult beast to review without lurching firmly into spoiler territory, both for the preceding books and for the…
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Urskuul’s Reading Circle: The Bear and the Serpent by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dan Sutcliffe
Welcome to the second official Urskuul’s Reading Circle Newsletter! Read on for brand new details of the discussions that occurred at the latest meeting (wherein we reviewed the book of…
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Charlie Hopkins
Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers for book one. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish Sleeping Giant. Waking Gods is the sequel to Sleeping Giants, which…
Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
Zachary A. Matzo
Timothy Zahn’s first foray into the New Star Wars EU sees him return to his most beloved character, the enigmatic and sorely missed Grand Admiral Thrawn. In a pseudo-origin story…
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
Jonathan Thornton
At the beginning of the workweek, most of Amberlough’s salary-folk crawled reluctantly from their bed – or someone else’s – and let the trolleys tow them, hungover and half asleep,…
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 – Movie Review
Malcolm Pope
I think it’s safe to call Guardians of the Galaxy one of the real breakout hits of 2014. If you had told me ten years ago that a movie about…
The Seven by Peter Newman
T. O. Munro
Seven is a magical number. Indeed, a 2014 survey found that seven is the world’s favourite number. Perhaps that is why the world of film and books has known so…
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Eric Christensen
Welcome to the inaugural column for the new series Fantastic Literature. As part of this series, I hope to explore new and new-to-me writers and works of literary fiction that…
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
T. L. Greylock
Warning: Contains Stage 9 Book Adoration and Booze Let’s just get this out of the way, and then maybe we can level with each other. I loved The Lions of…
Urskuul’s Reading Circle: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Hello, and welcome to the first official Urskuul’s Reading Circle Newsletter! Read on for brand new details of the discussions that occurred at the latest meeting (wherein we reviewed the…
A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane
Jo Niederhoff
Whatever else may be your opinion of A Wizard Alone, you have to admit that you will likely never read any other book which opens with a boy arguing with…
The Hammer and The Goat / The Vagrant and The City by Peter Newman
Covers count. Every author knows this. Covers can make you buy books, they pose questions, raise mysteries – draw in the eye and the imagination. It is rare, however, for…