Brandon Barr Interview – Song of the Worlds
JC Kang
Brandon Barr is a beloved figure in Indie Author circles, being an active member of several online communities and having spoken at the 20BooksTo50k® conference. He has inspired many of…
science fiction
Of Lead and Plastic: Tabletop Wargaming In 2018
Toby Frost
Wargaming and miniatures games have got a pretty bad rep in the past for being dry, intense and hard to enjoy. However, if the stereotypes were ever true, they aren’t…
El Ministerio del Tiempo (Ministry of Time) – TV Series Review
A. M. Justice
I am a sucker for costume dramas. If a show involves somebody wearing farthingales, I will give it a try, and I’ll usually hang in there even if it’s not…
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
Rakib Ahmad Khan
It seems that I have a thing for sentient elephants. My first experience was the excellent Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg. But, The Only Harmless Great Thing is…
Black Man (a.k.a. Thirteen) by Richard Morgan
Carl Marsalis is a Variant Thirteen, a genetically-engineered throwback to a strain of human that died out thousands of years ago. He is a tough, aggressive loner, instinctively cunning and…
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Jessica Juby
If you’ve not read any of the three titles by Becky Chambers, I suggest you have a little word with yourself and seek them out immediately. If you’ve not heard…
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
If ever there was a case to be made for not judging a book by its cover, this is it. The cover sat before me shows the face of a…
Karen Joy Fowler Interview – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Jonathan Thornton
Karen Joy Fowler is a critically acclaimed and multi-award winning author of both literary and speculative fiction. Her work transcends genre boundaries but frequently explores issues around feminism, alienation and…
Orbiter 9 – Movie Review
R. S. McCoy
For those that don’t know, I’m a military wife. That means I spend 3-5 nights a week sans husband. Most nights I choose to read (duh!), but every now and…
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
My first introduction to The Man in the High Castle was not in printed format – I first watched the adaptation that Amazon produced. I was intrigued by the concept…
Nina Allan Interview – The Rift
Nina Allan is one of the finest writers operating in the field of speculative fiction. Her debut novel The Race (2014) was released to critical acclaim, and was nominated for…
Monthly Short Stories Winner: Alien or Eldritch Artifact
Xiagan
A massive artifact appears all of a sudden and (violently) disrupts the everyday life (of a tribe, a city, a country, the world). It can either be an alien artifact…