The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
KJ Braxton
This review contains some spoilers. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the book. After thoroughly enjoying The Northern Lights I was eager to get onto The Subtle…
Winners of the 2013 Aurealis Awards
Overlord
This past Weekend saw the award ceremony of the Aurealis Awards in Canberra, Australia. For those who haven’t heard of them before, the Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 by…
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Kit
The year is 2044. Planet Earth is entering the third decade of a colossal energy and employment crisis. Cities are going up in superheated mushroom clouds, and people are packed…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Underdog
Jennie Ivins
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…
The Curious Case of Game of Thrones
Zachary A. Matzo
Show of hands: how many people believed, back in 1997, that George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire would become a full-blown cultural phenomenon? Anybody? I didn’t think…
Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell
Aleksandra Kesek
The world isn’t a romantic stage play; it’s not all love and glory. And a swordfight isn’t always about skill or strength; sometimes – maybe even most times – it’s…
Mark Alder Reads from His Highly Anticipated Son of the Morning
I first heard about Son of the Morning at a convention back in 2012. It was, as is so often the case, one of those moments where your instant reaction…
Tad Williams deal sees him return to Osten Ard!
DAW Books have finally talked New York Times bestselling author Tad Williams into returning to Osten Ard in a sequel trilogy currently labeled The Last King of Osten Ard. The…
Newcastle Film & Comic Con 2014
Alister Davison
It began with a conversation, one of those out of the blue remarks: “Did you know there’s going to be a comic convention in Newcastle at the beginning of March?”…
Rothfuss’s Auri Novella Gets a Release Date!
Finally! We have a date for Patrick Rothfuss’s next book set in the world of the Kingkiller Chronicle!!! Oh, hang on, you thought we meant ‘that one’? Sorry, no, we…
Writing your way through the blues
Anne Lyle
We are teaming up with Anne & her publishers to give away not only 3 signed copies of her latest book (The Prince of Lies), but one lucky reader will…
Hang Wire by Adam Christopher
Phil Norris
Hang Wire is Adam Christopher’s fourth book and it is his best so far. That’s not saying the three that went before – Empire State, Seven Wonders and The Age…