Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
Jonathan Thornton
At the beginning of the workweek, most of Amberlough’s salary-folk crawled reluctantly from their bed – or someone else’s – and let the trolleys tow them, hungover and half asleep,…
Tough Travels: Assassins
Laura M. Hughes
Back in 2014, Nathan Barnhart created a weekly feature called ‘Tough Travels’, which he hosted over on Fantasy Review Barn. Inspired by The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne…
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 – Movie Review
Malcolm Pope
I think it’s safe to call Guardians of the Galaxy one of the real breakout hits of 2014. If you had told me ten years ago that a movie about…
The David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy: 2017 Shortlists
Michael Everest
Voting on the shortlists closes on Friday 2nd June. Cast your votes on the Gemmell Awards official website. The awards will be presented on the 15th July 2017, at the…
The Seven by Peter Newman
T. O. Munro
Seven is a magical number. Indeed, a 2014 survey found that seven is the world’s favourite number. Perhaps that is why the world of film and books has known so…
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Eric Christensen
Welcome to the inaugural column for the new series Fantastic Literature. As part of this series, I hope to explore new and new-to-me writers and works of literary fiction that…
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
T. L. Greylock
Warning: Contains Stage 9 Book Adoration and Booze Let’s just get this out of the way, and then maybe we can level with each other. I loved The Lions of…
Sieges and Siegecraft – Part Two: Defenders
Aaron Miles
Shore up the defences, man the walls and get those supplies inside! Last time, we looked at siegecraft from the attackers’ side; this time, we’re on the defensive. There are…
Disabilities In SFF: More Or Less Than Fine?
Leo Elijah Cristea
Quite some time ago, I wrote a pretty vague and largely naive (in that I missed a lot) article about disability in SFF. It was exclusively about physical disabilities and…
Introducing: Cruising The Cosmere
Sonia Grace
Show of hands: how many of you started reading Brandon Sanderson’s books with no idea of what the Cosmere would be? When I picked up Mistborn way back before his…
I Know This is Fantasy-Faction, but Science-fiction Matters Too
Geoff Matthews
I don’t think I have a strange reading history. I’m pretty sure it is the same as many other people. At a young age I started reading books, because that’s…
Brian Staveley Interview – Skullsworn
Peter Tr
By now you should all probably know that the point of my interviews is simply to celebrate Wednesdays (doesn’t matter if it’s actually Wednesday or not). This time I have…