FantasyCon 2019 – Una McCormack
FantasyCon 2019 has announced Dr Una McCormack as its 3rd Guest of Honour at Glasgow 18th to 20th October. A British science fiction author, bestfor her TV tie-in work, Una [...]
Short story competition 2019 – Winner announcement
From the desk of Allen Ashley, our judge: “I am pleased to be able to make an early call this year with my announcement of the results of British Fantasy Society Short [...]
British Fantasy Awards 2019
Following two rounds of nomination and voting from the members of the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon, The British Fantasy Awards has reached its jury stage. For 2019, [...]
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker. Review.
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker Orbit, pb, £8.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming This is the only surviving record of the [...]
Liege-Killer: The Graphic Novel by Christopher Hinz and Jon Proctor. Review.
Liege-Killer: The Graphic Novel by Christopher Hinz and Jon Proctor Angry Robot, pb, £12.99 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Binaries are a genetically modified species, two bodies [...]
THIN AIR by Richard Morgan. Review.
THIN AIR by Richard Morgan Gollancz, 538 page HC, £20.00 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan In a year that has been celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of man landing on the moon, [...]
THE KING OF AVALON by Caractacus Plume. Book review
THE KING OF AVALON by Caractacus Plume, Silvatici Publishing, p/b £8.99 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson There are superbly enjoyable parts to this story but, sadly other [...]
WITHIN THE WATER by Kelly Fallows. Book review
WITHIN THE WATER by Kelly Fallows, Matador, p/b £7.99 Reviewed by Nigel Robert Wilson I will confess that when I first tackled this tale I found it difficult as in its [...]
BLACK STATIC #69 (May-Jun 2019) edited by Andy Cox. Zine review
BLACK STATIC #69 (May-Jun 2019) edited by Andy Cox, TTA Press, Ely, Cambs, UK p/b £5.99 (UK) 96 pages, www.ttapress.com Reviewed by Pauline Morgan Once upon a time mention [...]
Time’s Children by D.B. Jackson. Review.
Time’s Children by D.B. Jackson Angry Robot, pb, £8.46 Review by Laura Castells Navarro After more than a decade of waging war against the Oaqmaran autarch Pemin, Mearlan [...]
PAN’S LABYRINTH By Guillermo Del Toro and Cornelia Funke. Book review
PAN’S LABYRINTH By Guillermo Del Toro and Cornelia Funke, Bloomsbury £16.99, Website Reviewed by H T Scott I have long been a fan of Guillermo Del Toro and was super [...]
DISTAFF: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY BY FEMALE WRITERS, by Jane O’Reilly, Rosie Oliver et al. Book review
DISTAFF: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY BY FEMALE WRITERS, by Jane O’Reilly, Rosie Oliver et al. self-published, Kindle edition, £2.36 Reviewed by Shona Kinsella In 2018 a [...]