Joe Abercrombie’s “Best Served Cold” is a standalone novel set in the same world established in his “First Law” trilogy. Therefore if you’ve read that, some of the references and characters may be familiar. If not, you’re in for a treat anyway. The whole story is based on a plot of vengeance, which is established [...]
Embassytown, China Miéville 2011, Pan, 405pp, £7.99 There can be little doubt that China Miéville’s is currently the poster boy for British genre writing. His novels routinely appear on award shortlists – he has won the Arthur C Clarke Award three times, a feat so far unmatched. He’s one of the few genre writers to [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
Leviathan Wakes, James SA Corey Orbit, 561pp, £12.99 Leviathan Wakes, the first book of the Expanse series, landed with a substantial thud during the summer of 2011. According to George RR Martin, it is a “kickass space opera”, a quote prominently displayed on the front cover. There is another approving quote by Charles Stross on [...]
Solaris Rising, edited by Ian Whates Solaris, 325pp, £7.99 Subtitled “The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction”, Solaris Rising is precisely that – a reboot of the George Mann edited The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction under a new editor, and an anthology of nineteen stories by well-known contemporary science fiction writers. And like [...]
Infidel, Kameron Hurley Night Shade Books, 376pp, $14.99 Nyxnissa, the ex-bel dame, was introduced in God’s War, also published by Night Shade Books in 2011. Infidel is not a direct sequel to that book, though it does follow on from its story. In God’s War, Nyx was booted out of the bel dames – state [...]
Christopher Fowler is to launch his first book for Solaris in the New Year, which is being billed as “the ultimate Hammer Horror they never made.” Hell Train reaches the UK on the 5th of January and is set to be a fabulous offering of “bizarre creatures, satanic rites, terrified passengers and the romance of [...]
THE WINNER OF OUR 300 WORD WRITING CHALLENGE #3 is writer Samanda Primeau, known on these forums as TheDustyZebra. The quarterly challenge requires entrants to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by a picture chosen by the moderators. The image is above, and the winning story is below. Congratulations TDZ! To [...]
I recently had the opportunity to interview award-winning author, Elizabeth Bear. It was a remarkably challenging and candid interview — much, one imagines, like the writer herself, who displayed a marked disinclination to whitewash the truth or tell comforting lies. She is the author of more than twenty published novels and a long list of [...]
A new author who provides a “distinctive new voice” in urban fantasy is due to release her debut novel, Blood and Feathers, in August next year. Lou Morgan, who was first published by the British Fantasy Society in 2008 with a short story, has pitched the novel as “Alice in Wonderland goes to hell”. The [...]
Rebellion Publishing have announced the opening of a new digital store in which users can download the best in genre writing with a click of a button. Solaris and Abaddon books, an imprint offering a wide range of sci-fi, horror and fantasy will be available in their entirety for the first time in both ePub [...]
Solaris books are set to release a fresh and fun title from debut author Gaie Sebold just in time for the New Year. Babylon Steel will be available from the 27th December in the UK and 5th January in the US. “Ex-sword-for-hire Babylon Steel runs the best brothel in the city. She’s got elves using [...]
Solaris has announced a new book that it has commissioned from Gareth l.Powell, author of The Recollection and Silversands and one of the most exciting new voices in science fiction. Ack-Ack Macaque is due for publication in January 2013 and is based on the short story of the same name which won Interzone magazine’s 2007 [...]
Less than a month after its release in trade paperback, GOBLIN MOON is now available in the amazon Kindle format. When the Goblin Moon rises, strange things happen … Coffins float down the river, hobgoblins emerge from their dens, alchemists pore over ancient texts in search of the secret of creating life — and one [...]
The Hour of Dust and Ashes is book three in the well-loved Charlie Madigan series by Kelly Gay and is out in paperback on the 8th December. Charlie Madigan knows that the off-world drug ‘ash’ makes humans the perfect vessels for possession. Which means that she will do anything to save her sister Bryn, who [...]
A new novel from bestselling author John Connolly is out next week, entitled Hells Bells in the UK and Infernal in the US. Hells Bells is the story of Samuel Johnson, who finds himself in trouble when, not content with being in love with the wrong girl, he is also the subject of the wrath [...]
Due for release in November is a new novel from Hugo award winning author, Vernor Vinge, published by Tor. Nearly ten years ago, Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children survived a disaster that almost obliterated the human race and ended up on Tines World. The pack animals that are the Tines and Ravna [...]
Coming soon from Avon is the second instalment in the Vampire Federation series, The Cross, by Scott Mariani. “There are worse things than vampires…” The ancient Cross of Ardaich was thought to have been destroyed in the bloody war between the Vampire Federation and the Trads, and is deeply feared by vampires. Even worse, its [...]
“What does a vampire eat during the zombie apocalypse?” A new book in the Tomes of the Dead series from Abaddon Books, Double Dead by Chuck Wendig, is the tale of Coburn, who finds himself with a problem when he wakes from a five year slumber. The issue is that human civilisation has fallen in [...]
November 1st brings a sizzling mix of the occult and steampunk from debut novelist Richard Ford. Kultus is “a steam-powered burlesque of brutal demonic action from the latest break-out talent from Solaris”. The novel follows the adventures of Thaddeus Blaklok, a mercenary who is seeking a mysterious key for unknown benefactors. However, he is not [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
Raam’s Shadow DLC out for Gears of War 3
Gears of War fans should be sprinting to their Xbox, MS points in hand, because a new batch of DLC has been released for the game. Raam’s Shadow is, in fact, the biggest add-on ever to be released in the history of the Gears of War franchise. The new mini-campaign is around three hours in [...]
Two lost Doctor Who episodes returned to BBC
If you’re a Doctor Who fan – and one of the true variety who has all the old black and white episodes on DVD, still watching them regularly – then some exciting news has emerged. Two episodes from the sixties which were thought to be lost have been discovered and returned to the BBC, meaning [...]
Focus claims Game of Thrones RPG
Focus Home Interactive has announced that it has bagged another game which is being developed that’s based on the Game of Thrones books and hit TV series. The franchise, which has suddenly got hotter than an orc torturer’s poking stick since it was aired on Sky earlier this year, has had several computer games developed [...]
Alice Eve cast for Star Trek 2
Several fresh snippets of news have popped up regarding the much anticipated JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel, which is destined to hit the silver screen in 2013. Abrams has apparently cast Alice Eve, of Entourage and Sex in the City 2 fame, for Star Trek 2 as it’s currently being referred to. The British actress [...]
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