Hidden Treasures: Azanian Bridges by Nick Wood
A.F.E. Smith
Hidden Treasures is a series that reviews small press and digital first SFF. Okay, so this is technically science fiction rather than fantasy. But even if you’re a die-hard fantasy…
science fiction
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Jonathan Thornton
Tor’s novella series was started in 2015, with the aim of promoting this shorter medium. The line includes both established authors and those just making their debut, and has included…
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu
Sonia Grace
The Three-Body Problem is about aliens. It’s also about Revolutionary China, Communism, and human nature. There’s a fair bit of philosophy thrown in, some well-explained math, and a computer game…
Fantasy and the Collector Mentality
Zachary A. Matzo
Raise your hand if own more than one copy of Lord of the Rings. I own four: the ebooks, my first mass market paperbacks from when I was 7 or…
The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories by Ken Liu
“Time’s arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.”…
Down Station by Simon Morden
Lucy Hounsom
I made the mistake of reading the first few chapters of Down Station on the Tube…which in Morden’s world is consumed by a terrible fire, along with the rest of…
Trying Out Science Fiction: A Guide for Fantasy Purists
Nicola Alter
Are you a reader who sticks purely to fantasy and looks suspiciously at the science fiction side of the shelf in the bookstore? Perhaps you’ve thought about trying out some…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Plot Twists
Xiagan
Plot twists are often a specialty of short stories and you find them there more often than in other forms of writing. The most famous examples I can think of…
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different time. What’s the…
Interview with Louisa Hall, author of Speak
Overlord
We’ve featured a fair amount of Science-Fiction on Fantasy-Faction lately, far more than we usually do, and that has opened doors to chat with some fantastic authors writing within that…
The Diversity of Today’s Cutting Edge Sci-Fi
When we talk about science fiction we divide it up. It’s too big for a single shelf, we have to break it into subgenres and swallow it in pieces. There’s…
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
Radiance pulled me into itself like the waves on a strange, Venusian beach. I went in with high expectations, since Cat Valente is a fabulous author whose work I have…