Nicholas Royle’s Diet Column: Viewing the World Through Mud-Spattered Spectacles
Since I’m in such a lousy mood this issue, here are some of my pet [...]
Desert Island Books: Tad Williams
I am assuming (perhaps erroneously) that the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare are provided, as in the radio program. If not, I’m afraid I would have to [...]
Of Sprouts and Men: Robert Rankin Interviewed
After having held “some forty-two or forty-three” different jobs over the period of his life, Robert Rankin settled down to being a writer. Nancy Sparling went [...]
Prequel Power: Terry Brooks on First King of Shannara
Bestselling author Terry Brooks reveals the background to First King of [...]
Rob’s Life: a Profile of Robert McCammon
By Matt Williams ‘My key word is hope; I think there’s hope in any situation.’ (Robert McCammon in Fear, Nov/Dec 1988, p.27) The Kings, the Herberts, the [...]
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
John Clute interviewed by David J. Howe. On April 3 1997, Little Brown published a book which was possibly the most important Fantasy work to see print since Tolkien first [...]
The Purple Cloud, by M.P. Shiel
Reviewed by Jeff Gardiner Tartarus Press have done us all a favour by reprinting Shiel’s acknowledged fin-de-siecle masterpiece The Purple Cloud (1901). This [...]
The Sound of White Ants, by Brian Howell
Reviewed by by Nels Stanley Okay, one thing you should know, that I’m going to get out of the way before this review gets underway: if you’re the sort of reader [...]
Out Of Mind, by Sam Hayes
Reviewed by Steve Dean This novel isn’t genre fiction in any way, although there is some exploration of the boundaries between reality and imagination, nor is it the [...]