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- The Vagrant has helped to lead a rebellion against the forces who wish to subjugate his home of Thanet. Lucavi, the God-Incarnate is ready to clench his fist one last time to decimate the populace and become immortal. Cyrus Lathan is at a cross-roads, how much does he give up of himself to become the…
- January Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so) semi-flooded London. Unemployed, he is encouraged to go to Tharsis on Mars for work. Although it is basically grunt-work, January reasons that it is better than no work at all. This…
- I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord of the Rings, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Wheel of Time, The Farseer and many more. The subgenre has proven durable and popular for many years for myself and many readers. However,…
- The winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award, given for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, was announced March 29 at Norwescon 46: WINNER These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit) SPECIAL CITATION The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman (Tin House) The Philip K.…
- The 2024 BSFA Award winners (for material published in 2023) have been announced at Eastercon. The awards were voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon), except for Translated Short Fiction, which is selected by jury. The winners were announced during Levitation, this year’s Eastercon, held March 29 –…
- I’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many years ago, or even Charles Finney’s very odd The Circus of Dr. Lao. More recently, I liked the TV series Carnivale, which also seemed to dip into that feeling of surreal…
- From the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon team: The 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award, and the Astounding Award nominees have been announced. The awards will be presented on Sunday evening, August 11, 2024, at a formal ceremony at the Glasgow Worldcon, 2024. Final Ballot for the 2022 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for best Young Adult Book,…
- It’s July 1995. April and Eddie Carter are newly-weds on their way to a stay at the Five Pines Resort, a cheap motel on the edge of Lake Michigan. They’re on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble. They stop and pick her up. It’s…
- Premee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest is a dark fairy tale that wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. Veris Thorn is a young woman, a citizen of the Tyrant’s empire who is conscripted to retrieve his two children from the dark Elmever forest outside the empire’s borders. As it turns out, Veris…
- Lilith Saintcrow is one of the more prolific fantasy writers of the early 21st Century, her oeuvre ranges across a wide swath of speculative fiction branches including urban fantasy, steampunk, and paranormal romance, to name a few. In A Flame in the North, she launches a Norse-inspired fantasy saga called Black Land’s Bane. An elemental…