Yearly Archives: 2021
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Author Spotlight: Brianna da Silva (CITY OF RECKONING)
Brianna is a proud geek who loves real-life adventure just as much as the imaginary kind. She keeps a busy schedule as a novelist, indie filmmaker, ... -
SPFBO 7 – The Fifth Quarter-Final – “EXTRA TIME”
As you may remember our fifth quarter-final – the one from the “starting anew” batch – could not be settled in “normal time.” Having read both ... -
THE CITY OF BRASS and THE KINGDOM OF COPPER by S. A. Chakraborty (BOOK REVIEWS)
“Fog shrouded the great city of brass, obscuring its towering minarets of sandblasted glass and hammered metal and veiling its golden domes. Rain seeped off the ... -
SPFBO 7 – The Third Quarter final – “EXTRA TIME”
You may recall that – back in August – the judges found that the first 20% of our two “leaving home” Batch quarterfinalists did not leave ... -
GUN ISLAND by Amitav Ghosh THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an (increasingly) occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing doing a PhD project at Queen’s University ... -
Author Spotlight – J.D.L Rosell (RANGER OF THE TITAN WILDS)
J.D.L. Rosell is the bestselling author of the series Legend of Tal, Ranger of the Titan Wilds, The Runewar Saga, The Famine Cycle, and Godslayer Rising. ... -
THE ART OF SPACE TRAVEL AND OTHER STORIES by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“I begin to understand that his is what time travel actually is: we can each of us go back in time a little. We extend a ... -
SPFBO 7 – The Sixth Quarter Final
On Wednesday, we announced our sixth trio of eliminations and revealed that this week’s two quarter-finalists from the “different” batch are SHADOWS OF IVORY by T.L. ... -
THE LAST DAYS OF HONG KONG by G. D. Penman (BOOK REVIEW)
I’VE JUST WORKED OUT THE TITLE. That’s so damn clever… The title obviously, not me. Damn I hope you gave yourself a proper pat on the ... -
THESE ALIEN SKIES by C.T. Rwizi (BOOK REVIEW)
This is a delightful little story – a mere 25 pages long in its Amazon listing, yet with themes that could have easily born a longer ...
