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Interview: Helen Corcoran, author of Queen of Coin and Whispers
What happens to someone when they have a childhood full of dreams of queens, heroines, knights, and adventures, then they grow up to become a bookseller and surround themselves with books? Since I've...
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Microreview [book]: Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
Further adventures in magical coding! Shorefall! The second book in Robert Jackson Bennett's Founders trilogy, continuation of Foundryside - one of my favourite reads in 2018 - and one of my most...
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6 Books with Michael Underwood
Michael R. Underwood is an author, podcaster, and publishing professional. His series include the Ree Reyes Geekomancy books, the Stabby Award-finalist Genrenauts series, collaboratively-written serial...
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New Books Spotlight
Welcome to another edition of the New Books Spotlight, where each month or so we curate a selection of 6 new and forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the...
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Nanoreviews: The Orphans of Raspay, The Monster Baru Cormorant, A Killing Frost
Bujold, Lois McMaster. The Orphans of Raspay [Subterranean Press]After seven novellas, Lois McMaster Bujold is treading on familiar ground - Penric finds himself in something of a pickle and with a...
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Microreview [book]: Divine Heretic by Jaime Lee Moyer
Jaime Lee Moyer’s Divine Heretic provides us with a story of a Joan of Arc who, while not being strictly true to the known historical facts, nevertheless brings us a fantastical story of a unique...
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Paying a visit to Lovecraft Country
SFF television is quickly becoming more active in discussions around the politics of race.A lot has been made out of the fact that a significant portion of the audience of HBO's new Watchmen had not...
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6 Books with Tessa Gratton
Tessa Gratton is the author of adult SFF, The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur from Tor Books, as well as several YA series and short stories which have been translated into twenty-two languages....
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Tor.com Publishing, First Become Ashes, and the pretty pastel packaging of abuse
CW: Discussions of rape, rape apologism, abuse, slavery, racism, explicit BDSM. Spoilers for Docile by K.M. Szpara.Imagine: you're on the internet one day, and you hear about a book. It's a new...
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Questing in Shorts: August 2020
This is usually where I write an introduction, but after several attempts, it turns out I'm not in a very introduction mood at the time of writing this. Instead of worrying about that, let's just check...
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Microreview [book]: Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
An In Nomine-like story of librarians of unwritten books, avenging angels, demons, and a book that could start a war between Heaven and Hell.“Magical librarians” is a 50,000 foot high concept that is...
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Interview: Rena Barron, author of Kingdom of Souls and Reaper of Souls
Photo Credit: Aaron GangDark magic, danger, trading years of your life in a gamble to save everything you love. Ambitions, legacies, and courage. An imperfect heroine who has to make the hardest...
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New Books Spotlight
Welcome to another edition of the New Books Spotlight, where each month or so we curate a selection of 6 new and forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the...
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Six Books with Dan Moren
Dan Moren is a novelist, freelance writer, and prolific podcaster. A former senior editor at Macworld, his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Macworld, Popular Science, Yahoo Tech, and many...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
The summer is winding down, the kids are going back to remote learning next week, and it was a pretty eventful August in comic book terms. In addition to the return of Locke and Key, more on that in...
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Microreview [Book]: The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
The Bone Shard Daughter brings a twisting story of a crumbling Empire run on a magic slowly destroying its citizens, with the Emperor’s daughter, an island governor’s child, and a smuggler trying to...
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Microreview [Book]: The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg
The Birdverse's first standalone novella is a gentle, thoughtful treatI am a big fan of everything I've read from R.B. Lemberg's Birdverse series, particularly their Nebula-nominated story "Grandmother...
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6 Books with Nicholas Bowling
Nicholas Bowling is an author, stand-up comic, musician and Latin teacher from South London. He graduated from Oxford University in 2007 with a BA in Classics and English, and again in 2010 with a...
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Microreview [Book]: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Cemetery Boys tells an otherworldly story with a skill that feels equally out of this world.Aiden Thomas’ Cemetery Boys has a slew of elements hiding in plain sight to the characters. A deep...
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Microreview [book]: Repo Virtual by Corey J White
Corey J White’s Repo Virtual brings a fresh, inclusive and modern spin on Cyberpunk, with the story of a near future heist in South Korea that is far more than it appearsThe future city of Neo Songdo...
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