Jonathan Ross Withdraws from Hugos
Overlord
Twitter has been alight with the news that one of the UK’s biggest and best known talk show hosts, Jonathan Ross, has withdrawn from his role as Master of Ceremonies…
A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin – Review Part One
Samuel S. B.
After years of making us wait, 2011 rolled into town and so did Mr. Martin’s long awaited book, number five in a planned seven book series. It is safe to…
Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Assassin Cover revealed!
Well, earlier this week we revealed the cover redesigns of Robin Hobb’s original Farseer series. If that wasn’t enough excitement for one week, her American Publishers (Del Ray books) have…
Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
I find the post apocalyptic genre simultaneously interesting and frustrating. I think that it has a lot of interesting potential to comment on social trends and social experimentation, but I…
Jen Williams responds to opinions on Bookshops’ perceived SFF Prejudice
So, yesterday we published a piece on Fantasy-Faction highlighting the observations made by three of British fantasy’s female authors suggesting that UK Booksellers are selling them and their contemporaries short.…
Sam Sykes Finally Gets an Awesome Cover
I’ve been saying for years that Sam Sykes’s books need some awesome covers. Don’t get me wrong, Sam’s covers for his original series weren’t ‘terrible’, but I did feel that…
David Gemmell Awards – 2014 Longlist Revealed & Voting Open
The Longlists for the David Gemmell Awards has been revealed and voting has opened!!! For those unfamiliar with how The David Gemmell Awards work, the first stage (that has resulted…
I Don’t Need No Women In My Fantasy
Stephen Deas
My Twitter stream regularly expresses a variety of opinion on the treatment of women, or of people of colour or unconventional sexuality, in genre fiction. This is, I presume to…
Ginjer Buchanan retiring from Ace/Roc
Just picked this up from Myke Cole: Ginjer Buchanan, editor-in-chief of Ace and Roc Books, is set to retire in March 2014, exactly 30 years after she was hired by…
Bookshops’ SFF Prejudice Problem?
There has been a recent highlighting of the fact by three well-known female authors that UK Booksellers are selling them and their contemporaries short. My aim today is to take…
The Boy With the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick – Review
I always find it weird… reading a book by someone I’ve met. I first met Den Patrick in 2012 at Fantasy-Faction’s Q & A Session with Peter V. Brett, Myke…
SLEEK New Covers for Robin Hobb’s Farseer Series
So, last week we posted up the news that George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire series was to undergo a cover redesign here in the UK. The…