God’s War by Kameron Hurley
Mike Shackle
“Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert.” As opening lines go, they don’t come much better. It sets the book’s grim tone,…
science fantasy
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Nyki Blatchley
Fantasy authors who want to get away from familiar contemporary or historical surroundings have various broad types of setting to choose from. They can create a fictional prehistory, as both…
Windhaven by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
Dominic Stevens
In recent months I have read The Windsingers by Megan Lindholm (an omnibus edition which collected together the first three novels – Harpy’s Flight, The Windsingers and Limbreth Gate –…