Books

In the rich tapestry of fiction, modern horror has been worn threadbare. Finding an original idea, not to mention one that is genuinely chilling, is becoming increasingly difficult. HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt valiantly hits home on the former, but ...

‘I spent a great deal of my life trying to be quiet and nice and not piss anyone off. I was miserable. It served no purpose. And they still came for me.’ The sad truth of the matter is that ...

I have been hearing nothing but praise for the former editor in chief of io9, Charlie Jane Anders, and her novel All the Birds in the Sky. While I’ve previously been burned by hype, this little gem lived up to its ...

Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak? First published in 2011, A Monster Calls was a figment of Siobhan Dowd’s imagination before her death. Her editor at Walker Books, ...

Welcome back to Breaking the Glass Slipper, our bi-weekly podcast on women in fantasy, science fiction, and horror! This week, host Lucy Hounsom interview Jen Williams. Jen Williams is the author of The Copper Cat trilogy: The Copper Promise, The Iron ...

I bloody loved A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar, so I jumped at the chance to read his new science fiction novel. And what a disappointment it was. The quality prose is still there – making the novel eminently ...

Leviathan’s Blood is the second novel in the Children Trilogy from Ben Peek. With the first novel in the series setting out a complex and original world, Peek had his work cut out for him to keep up the quality ...

Adam Roberts is hardly a new voice in SFF writing, and yet he was new to me. Or, should I say, his fiction work was new to me. Long ago I had come across one of his academic works on ...

I met Gerrard Cowan last year at FantasyCon where we both sat on a panel discussing writing habits. His debut novel, The Machinery, was initially released last year with a paperback available from March 2016. The follow-up, The Strategist, is ...

This novel, Ernest Cline’s bestselling debut, is a strange one. Obviously pitched at fellow geeks, the narrative makes reference to every imaginable cult property – video games, films, music, comics, books, and celebrities. While, for the most part, the book ...