The Dragon Republic Is an Epic Military Fantasy Exploring the Personal Costs of War
How does one follow up a dark fantasy inspired by the history of the Sino-Japanese conflicts in the early twentieth…
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Gladiator Meets The Count of Monte Cristo in the African-Inspired Fantasy Epic The Rage of Dragons
The Rage of Dragons, the debut epic from self-publishing success story Evan Winter, distinguishes itself by its setting, a fantasy…
Guns and Magic in Tropical Straits: Gates of Stone by Angus Macallan
Historical fiction author Angus Donald turns his skills to historical fantasy under the pen name Angus Macallan in Gates of…
Deep Roots Delves Further into Lovecraft’s Mythos
After the Innsmouth Raid in 1928, the survivors were sent off to internment camps, where they were eventually joined with…
Poisonous Plots Unfold in Debut Fantasy City of Lies
Jovan and Kalina are young siblings living in the city-state of Silasta. Kalina suffers from a physical disability that causes…
Artificial Condition Reveals the Origins of Murderbot
Like the first book, this novella’s chief strength is Murderbot’s narration. Snarky, independent, and keen to be left alone, Murderbot…
Serpent in the Heather Is a Fantastic, Fantastical 1930’s Spy Adventure
Continuing Kay Kenyon’s tale of paranormally powered spies in the run up to an alternate World War II, Serpent in…
Sinned His Last: Matt Wallace Talks the Plating the Final Course of the Sin Du Jour Series
Matt Wallace is a man for all seasons. Half of the incendiary publishing industry podcast Ditch Diggers, a truly memorable tweeter, and,…
Jasmine Gower’s Moonshine Is a Roaring Debut That Lives Up to its Cover
Judging a book by its cover is a sometimes fraught process, given that often the author and artist are not…
Space Bikers Return on the Cover of Blood Binds the Pack
Alex Acks (aka Alex Wells) is a writer, geologist, In addition to short stories published in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Daily…
Halls of Law Builds an Empire in Which Women Aren’t an Afterthought
In Halls of Law, V.M. Escalada (a pseudonym for fantasy author Violette Malan) drops us into a fantasy world in…
The Last Good Man Shows Us the Future of Warfare Through the Eye of a Drone
In The Last Good Man, Linda Nagata transports us forward a few years into a future in which the business of…
Portal Fantasy on the High Seas: The Stormwrack Novels of A.M. Dellamonica
Science fiction and fantasy are rife with trilogies. Sometimes, if you don’t hop onboard with book one, you can feel…
Winter Tide Dives Deep into the Litany and Legacy of Lovecraft
After the Federal raids on Innsmouth and the destruction of Deep Reef in 1928, the survivors of the Federal Government’s…
Explore Lovecraft’s Dreamlands Through New Eyes in The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
Some book titles seem designed to befuddle the reader. Others are only tangentially related to the contents of the novel.…
Catching Up with Ken Liu and The Dandelion Dynasty
Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. But you already knew…
Michael Livingston, The Gates of Hell, and Writing Secret Historical Fantasy
An award-winning writer and professor, Michael Livingston holds degrees in history, medieval studies, and English. He teaches at The Citadel in Charleston,…
The Cold War Meets the X-Men in MJ-12: Inception
August 1945: WWII is over. The atmosphere in Berlin is tense, with the surrendered Germany cowering under the thumb of the Soviets…
Jen Williams Talks Testing Her Writing Mettle in The Copper Promise
Jen Williams is a British fantasy author whose Copper Cat series, already a buzz-generator in its native UK, is finally coming…