Writing Groups – Part Two
Adrian Faulkner
This is part two of our interview series on writing groups. If you missed part one, you can read it here. In my previous article we looked at how writing…
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Dragons: Classifications
Leo Elijah Cristea
Last time we considered dragons as a general species, to introduce their role in fantasy fiction, giving introductory examples of their usual staging and appearances in the stories we relish.…
Monthly Short Story Winner: The Deep
Jennie Ivins
In this month’s short story contest, participants wrote us stories about ‘the deep’. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at the winner, here is the…
Fantasy Book Club – September 2013: The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker
Lisa Taylor
In September, we will be reading The Folding Knife by K. J. Parker. In case you missed it last week, Jared Shurin wrote up a wonderful and persuasive plea on…
Reflections on A Memory of Light
Zachary A. Matzo
Editor’s Note: This article DOES NOT contain any spoilers. And so it ends. Twenty-two years and over four million words later, I’ve finished A Memory of Light. The 14th and…
Cold Steel by Kate Elliott
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
The last installment of the Spiritwalker trilogy, Cold Steel follows the further adventures of Catherine Bell Barahal as she tries to save her cousin Bee who walks the dreams of…
A Thousand Perfect Things by Kay Kenyon
A. E. Marling
If the idea of a scientific adventure to find a golden lotus delights you, try A Thousand Perfect Things by Kay Kenyon. This historical fantasy of an alternate 19th century…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Mazes
Welcome back to our monthly writing contest winner post. This month our contest participants wrote stories about mazes. There were a lot of great entries, but before we look at…
Charm by Sarah Pinborough
Phil Norris
This review contains spoilers. If you have yet to read Poison, read this review with caution. How do you follow the re-imaging of Snow White, why with the re-imaging of…
YA Science Fiction and Fantasy – Part Four: The Spotlight
There is such a wealth of YA SFF that sometimes navigating the shelves can be difficult. At the moment, YA is somewhat fashionable, and that’s good, because when something is…
Why You Should Read The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker
Pornokitsch
The Fantasy-Faction Book Club, proving the wisdom of crowds, has selected K.J. Parker’s The Folding Knife for its September read. With a few weeks to go until it begins, there’s…
Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff
Nicholas Schmiedicker
Kinslayer is Jay Kristoff’s latest installment in his Lotus War series. The story picks up not long after the end of Stormdancer, Shogun Yoritomo is dead at the hands of…