Ten Tips For Short Story Writing
Aaron Miles
Short stories can be great fun to write, but sometimes tough to get the knack of. For anyone who wants to try their luck at this form, I’ve come up…
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Invisible Planets edited and translated by Ken Liu
Charlie Hopkins
Invisible Planets is superb anthology of short fiction that offers Westerners in particular a series of totally unique entry points and perspectives. There is plenty of impressive science fiction and…
Emergence edited by J. M. Martin
Richard Bray
Emergence is a shared-world anthology that takes full advantage of its format, building one story atop the next to create a three-dimensional world that ultimately reaches its peak with Edward…
Mash Up edited by Gardner Dozois
Victoria Hooper
Mash Up is a short story anthology edited by Gardner Dozois, in which authors take famous first lines from literature and weave completely new stories from them, all with a…
The Bound Folio by Rob J. Hayes
In the Five Kingdoms, previously the setting of Rob J. Hayes’ Ties That Bind trilogy and now the setting of his new collection of short stories, The Bound Folio, injustice…
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Lucy Hounsom
When I asked Twitter whether I should buy the first Witcher game, I got a unanimous YES. One gentleman informed me that the games were based on a series of…
The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories by Ken Liu
Jonathan Thornton
“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.”…
Fight Like A Girl Anthology: Launch, Review, and Readalong!
A.F.E. Smith
On the first Saturday in April, I learned something very important: if you’re going to get involved in a tavern brawl, always make sure you have Juliet McKenna on your…
Looking For Jake & Other Stories by China Miéville
Lew Kelly
Looking for Jake and Other Stories is China Miéville’s first collection of short stories, published in 2005. It’s an imaginative, thoughtful, political and highly original collection of work, a melding…
New Joe Abercrombie book announced!
Overlord
So, Joe Abercrombie’s Young Adult trilogy has now finished. Although 5 years ago we’d never have entertained the idea that Joe would go down the YA route we were so…
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues edited by J. M. Martin
The overwhelming majority of characters in Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues, edited by J.M. Martin, are not very nice people. These aren’t loveable rascals, playing harmless tricks in…
Robert A. Heinlein: More Fantasy than Meets the Eye
Raymond K. Rugg
Robert A. Heinlein is known as the dean of science fiction, and was the first Grand Master of the genre. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke are collectively known…