Class Warfare: Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Literary Fiction
Zachary A. Matzo
The line drawn between so-called literary fiction and genre fiction has always irked me. As I embarked upon a re-read of the first two volumes of Lev Grossman’s frustrating Magicians…
Fantasy Worldbuilding – Ideas for Designing a Civilization
B. Pine
The period in history between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, the period we call the Middle Ages, seem to go hand in hand with epic fantasy. Of course, there are…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Taboos
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Messenger’s Legacy by Peter V. Brett: Review
Overlord
Novellas are hot this year. Half a decade or so ago, before the eBook, few people would have expected that top-name authors would ever be releasing novellas at a steady…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released! Thoughts…
We’ve waited a long time for this… we’ve fallen for a number of hoaxes saying that they were ‘official trailers’ only to find upon clicking on them that they’re just…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer
Jennie Ivins
Today the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was released. And it is impressive! Before you read farther, go watch it! Do it! Amazing right? If the trailer is any…
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Richard Bray
A few days before I started reading Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor, I picked up Patrick Rothfuss’s novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Though the stories were different, there…
Jurassic World Trailer released 2 days early!
When I was a kid dinosaurs were huge. Not literally, well, yes, literally – kinda – I guess they were extinct, but… ah, you know what I mean: popular. So,…
Maleficent – Movie Review
Karl Wolfenden
Maleficent shows us how far the modern fantasy genre has come, and not just in terms of the subject matter and frequency of adaptations either, but also in terms of…
Faeries and Folklore – Part Three: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Leo Elijah Cristea
Last time we looked at how faeries have evolved, through some of their integral folklore as well as the genre as a whole. Some changes have been marked, others more…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Show-Stopping Speech
Eric Christensen
On November 19, Ursula K. Le Guin received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, celebrating her lifetime of achievement. The author of A Wizard of…
Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone
Nicholas Schmiedicker
In a genre that is dominated by the gritty and dark following the recent popularity of Game of Thrones, Max Gladstone delivers an impressive tale with an ultimate message of…