2016 Locus Award Winners Announced!
Jennie Ivins
Yesterday the Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Locus Awards during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, WA. The awards are chosen by a survey of…
Company Town by Madeline Ashby
Charlie Hopkins
There is a lot to like about this ambitious, quick and explosive sci-fi story. Company Town is told through the eyes of the protagonist Hwa and takes place in a…
Graphic Fantasy: Catching up on Comics
Eric Christensen
Step into any forum, whether on Fantasy-Faction or another site, and conversation often turns to recommendations. “I liked X, but not Y. What should I pick up next?” Unless X…
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
Jonathan Thornton
There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our mouths. It finds us…
Mash Up edited by Gardner Dozois
Victoria Hooper
Mash Up is a short story anthology edited by Gardner Dozois, in which authors take famous first lines from literature and weave completely new stories from them, all with a…
The Bound Folio by Rob J. Hayes
Richard Bray
In the Five Kingdoms, previously the setting of Rob J. Hayes’ Ties That Bind trilogy and now the setting of his new collection of short stories, The Bound Folio, injustice…
Character Group Dynamics
Aaron Miles
One of the most important tasks of a writer is to get the reader to engage with their characters, but almost as important is how your characters engage with each…
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Lucy Hounsom
When I asked Twitter whether I should buy the first Witcher game, I got a unanimous YES. One gentleman informed me that the games were based on a series of…
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Joie
My first impression after reading the title was, “Will I turn invisible once I enter? Can no one find me?” A place where I can read, undisturbed and uninterrupted? Sign…
Where did Stranger of Tempest come from?
Tom Lloyd
I’m sure you’ve all heard of Stranger of Tempest by now… It has perhaps the most stand-out cover of the year and is being hailed as relentless, fun and unputdownable…
What I Learned as a Tabletop Gamer
Trent Cannon
In news that will shock precisely no one that has spoken to me for any amount of time, I am a massive nerd. Like, huge. I am the kind of…
Tara Sim Interview
Leo Elijah Cristea
Today we are lucky enough to have author Tara Sim here to talk about her upcoming novel Timekeeper (Sky Pony Press, Fall 2016). She can often be found in the…