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Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

Writing Magazine

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The University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies has launched the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. The new venture’s inaugural event was a free Zoom lecture on 16 September by fantasy author Ellen Kushner, followed by a discussion panel on f

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

Entertainment Weekly

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With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 344 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Steve Feasey Publisher Bloomsbury A magic sword, an abandoned baby of mysterious origins, and a malevolent sorcerer looking to plunge the world into chaos… Dark Blade ticks off a lot of epic fantas

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 442 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rena Barron Publisher HarperVoyager There’s something comforting about epic fantasy. You know the broad strokes you’re likely to get: protagonist with a destiny, dark lord, invented land w

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

Writing Magazine

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FableCroft Publishing is an Australian independent press of speculative fiction. The editorial team has been ‘so tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story.

SFX

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As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no

SFX

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Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

The Atlantic

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Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.

SFX

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RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

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Neal Shusterman’s latest, GAME CHANGER (out now, Walker) centres on a teenage American football player, who’s… oh right, you’ve lost interest before I mention how he bounces into parallel worlds, right? Fair enough. Hannah Mathewson’s debut WITHERWAR

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter

The Atlantic

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

Writing Magazine

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Win $500 and publication in the biannual Black River Chapbook Competition for unpublished chapbooks, 16-36 pages. Chapbooks may be poems or prose of any kind or combination. Individual pieces within the chapbook may be previously published, but not t

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RELEASED 30 APRIL Publisher Rebellion Writer Alf Wallace Artist Luis Bermejo COLLECTION British comics have often cheerfully taken the “steal whatever isn’t nailed down” approach to storytelling ideas, but they’ve rarely done it in such an impressive

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She used to be a lawyer but was always writing stories in her spare time, and published her first book almost 20 years ago. She lives in Auckland and is a prolific writer of paranormal romance, sci-fi a

Writing Magazine

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Original ‘thought provoking weird fiction’ in the form of fantasy, science fiction and horror are wanted for Hypnos, which twice a year publishes pieces in the vein of HP Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe an

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Tom Beer offers an appreciation of fiction finalist J

India Today

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The creeping devastation of a beautiful land is a story that resonates everywhere in India. Sudeep Chakravarti's novel is set in Goa, but its rapacious developers, mournful lookers-back, see-no-evil bystanders and raging activists might be from anywh

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Want to make There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job your next book club read? Here are some talking points to spark a discussion. • Does this novel have a message for its readers? If so, what do you think it is? • Was there a job that our narrator tack

Writing Magazine

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Sam Lipsyte PAGES 284 GENRE Fiction HOW DOES A YOUNG, AIMLESS man go from failed comic to corporate-wellness hack to revered lifestyle guru? Pretty easily, it turns out. Author Sam Lipsyte presents a hero for our times in Hark, a meditation