Author: T.O. Munro
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CARVED FROM STONE AND DREAM by T. Frohock (Book Review)
This is the fifth story in Teresa Frohock’s Los Nefilim series, though it’s the second that is a more conventional full novel length, rather than the ... -
LEGACY OF GHOSTS by Alicia Wanstall-Burke (Book Review)
Blood of Heirs, Alicia Wanstall-Burke’s debut, introduced us to two leading characters at opposite ends of a vividly drawn world. Though Lidan the southern princess and ... -
CHILDREN OF RUIN by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review)
In Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky delved deep into the alien familiarity of spiders, building – through accelerated evolution – a species wholly inhuman in its ... -
To the Moon and back with Dublin Worldcon
Every so often I find myself picking up an old classic in an impulse to broaden my education. So it was when I plucked H.G.Wells The ... -
DISPEL ILLUSION by Mark Lawrence (Book Review)
I was fortunate enough, having swiftly devoured One Word Kill and Limited Wish, to blag an early electronic copy of Dispel Illusion off the author. Though to ... -
PALE KINGS by Micah Yongo (Book Review)
In Pale Kings, Micah Yongo picks up from the cliffhanger ending to Lost Gods with Neythan and his miscellaneous collection of friends heading south in search ... -
LOST GODS by Micah Yongo (Book Review)
Micah Yongo delivers an accomplished debut with this epic immersive fantasy. Lost Gods manages to convey a sweeping majestic world and yet still anchor the tale ... -
THE HOUSE OF SACRIFICE by Anna Smith Spark (Book Review)
The concluding volume in Anna Smith Spark’s epic and dark debut trilogy rejoins our anti-hero Marith Altrersyr some four years after the events of The Tower ... -
THE RUTHLESS by Peter Newman (Book Review)
The reader is reborn into Newman’s world of the Deathless, much as his protagonist Lady Pari is reborn into the body of her great-granddaughter Priti. Newman’s ... -
The 4 Categories of Fantasy: Applying Some Ideas From RHETORICS OF FANTASY by Farah Mendlesohn
There are many more or less recognised subgenres to fantasy. On the bookshelves of Waterstones, steampunk jostles alongside urban and high fantasy. On social media people ...
