Fantasy
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FROM HERE by Daniel Kramb – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
As some of you may know I am currently undertaking a creative writing PhD with the catchy title Navigating the mystery of future geographies in climate ... -
WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG by Kelly Link (BOOK REVIEW)
“We all want things it would be better not to want,” the cat says. “We pursue them anyway, don’t we?” Kelly Link’s uniquely wonderful and unusual ... -
CRUISING THE COSMERE: Tress of the Emerald Sea (BOOK REVIEW)
“That said, you must understand that this is a tale about people who are both what they seem and not what they seem. Simultaneously. A story ... -
THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN by Mark Lawrence (Book Review)
There is, perhaps, a particular gravity about libraries that attracts speculative fiction authors. From the great library of the Unseen Academy, with its fearsome books and ... -
AND PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW)
“Harry squared his shoulders. “I am now going to step into the wardrobe,” he told her. “I will, shortly after, step back out of the wardrobe, ... -
LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND by Seanan McGuire (BOOK REVIEW)
This review does contain spoilers I’ve long been a big fan of the Wayward Children books, and think that most of them, including this one, ... -
THE MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER by H. G. Parry (BOOK REVIEW)
Long ago bright, luminous magic poured freely through schisms around the world, in the shadows mages roamed in their numbers secretly bringing miracles to those who ... -
INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE by Emma Törzs (BOOK REVIEW)
“Blood. Herbs. Somebody here had a book. Somebody here was doing magic.” Emma Törzs seamlessly meshes together fantasy, thriller and dark academia to bring us ... -
THE UNKNOWN: WEIRD WRITINGS, 1900-1937 by Algernon Blackwood, edited by Henry Bartholomew (BOOK REVIEW)
“The signs are sure; for days they have been passing – close down upon the world. The flocks are scattered. There has been tumult – tumult ... -
A WOMAN OF THE SWORD by Anna Smith Spark (Book Review)
A Woman of the Sword is set on the many-nationed continent of Irlast which featured in Smith Spark’s debut Empires of Dust trilogy. That trilogy followed ...
