Monthly Archives: September 2020
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Tough Travelling: Animals
Welcome intrepid adventurers to Tough Travelling with the Tough Guide to Fantasyland! That’s right, we’ve dusted it down and brought back this feature (created by Nathan of ... -
ASK THE WIZARD: The Long Game
Hearken to my words. Hearken to my glory. The great evil of our times has been defeated. The armies of darkness continue to ask me awkward ... -
SPFBO 6: Fifth Semi-Finalist Announcement
On Wednesday, we announced our fifth set of three eliminations and revealed that our next quarter-finalists are LAST OF THE EXALTED by Derek Prior and QUEENS ... -
Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 – Edited by Melissa Edmundson (BOOK REVIEW)
“I knew all the time that for a man who had gone to bed in a commonplace hall bedroom in a very commonplace little town such ... -
THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE by Joe Abercrombie (BOOK REVIEW)
‘What some called madness he recognised as diamond-edged clarity. The time for arguments in the teahouse, for pretty words and fancy theories, was over. The grasping ... -
Knight’s Shadow by Sebastian De Castell — Book Review
Series: Greatcoats (#2) Published by: Jo Fletcher Books. Genre: Epic fantasy, grimdark, low magic(-ish?). Length: 20 hrs and 6 minutes, or 606 pages on hardcover. Format: ... -
SPFBO 6: Eliminations Part 5
Every week, we’ll be announcing a batch of five books. Three will be eliminated on the Wednesday, carrying two forward to the Friday, when we’ll announce ... -
NOTES FROM SMALL PLANETS by Nate Crowley (BOOK REVIEW)
Sci-fi and fantasy love to be epic. There’s nothing like an existential threat to the world or galaxy whose resolution inevitably comes down to a handful ... -
Julia’s Favourite Self Published Fantasy Books – Part 2
So here we go with part 2 of my List of favourite Self Published Fantasy books – this time the focus is on Epic and Dark ... -
A MEMORY CALLED EMPIRE by Arkady Martine (BOOK REVIEW)
High-grade sci-fi performs a tricky balancing act: inventing a world that is different to ours in important respects but at the same time providing a narrative ...
