Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths by Ryan Britt
Eric Christensen
I think it is fair to say that nerds tend to be obsessive completists who love to study things at a very granular level. And one of our favorite things…
The Thief Who Knocked On Sorrow’s Gate by Michael McClung
Richard Bray
When did I go from being a thief to some sort of hero? When exactly did that happen, and how could I possibly not have noticed? I was introduced to…
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens – Spoiler Free Review
Zachary A. Matzo
Writer’s Note: This is truly a spoiler-free review. And while normally I’d never ask for anyone to censor themselves, allow me to issue this simple plea: don’t spoil the movie…
Elements of Fantasy: Brownies
Janie Bill
Hidden in the forgotten rooms of a house and in cluttered corners are little supernatural children who perform chores in exchange for food and treats. Even though they are personable…
Writing The Other Other
Aaron Miles
Writing the other can be a challenge, it’s often difficult to convincingly portray a character that greatly differs from your experiences. Without a personal frame of reference the writer is…
Fantasy ‘One-Shots’
Overlord
Fantasy. It’s our genre: we love it! But… trilogies… quartets… quintets… septologies… decalogies… and all those other ‘ets’ and ‘gies’, they take so much time to read, don’t they? Well,…
The Shores of Spain by J. Kathleen Cheney
Jo Niederhoff
J. Kathleen Cheney’s trilogy about an alternate Portugal secretly populated by sereia (better known as sirens), selkies, and otter people comes to a conclusion in The Shores of Spain. The…
Interview with Alison Littlewood
I first heard of Alison Littlewood back in 2012 when one of her Editors, Jo Fletcher, was proudly telling me that her debut novel – A Cold Season – had…
The Ciftci Case: Is Gollum Good or Evil?
Almost 80 years after Gollum appeared in The Hobbit, and 60 years after Frodo first suggests that it may have been better if Bilbo had killed Gollum when he first…
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
Jonathan Thornton
“By its own reality, ecstasy makes people see that suffering is real. And without purpose. Ecstasy is a light that illuminates pain.” In Unquenchable Fire (1988), Rachel Pollack imagines an…
The Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
Lucy Hounsom
I loved Cogman’s first novel, which introduced us to the Library, a vast repository of books collected from multiple alternate worlds. Irene is one of its agents, posted to a…
An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
An Ember In The Ashes has landed with a huge splash in an ocean full of Hunger Games-esque titles; perhaps due to the incredibly favourable 5* reviews amongst the usually…