It’s always interesting when the Arthur C Clarke Awards roll around. Not so much the long list which usually contains everything everyone expects it to, but for the short list, which always raises an eyebrow or two as there’s inevitably something a bit out of left field on it. For me, this year, [...]
Having been raised by vampires since her parents death when she was young, Cassie has become the most powerful ’seer’ or clairvoyant in the supernatural world and she also has the power to travel back and forth through history. Cassie has been chosen to be ‘Pythea’, the world’s protector against anyone attempting to change [...]
A few weeks back the Open Rights Group hosted a benefit talk in Central London called Resisting The All-Seeing Eye that I couldn’t go to as it clashed with our own festival. It was about privacy and surveillance in the modern world and featured two authors, Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow, both pretty outspoken [...]
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Ethics group officially launched on 1st June 2009, their mission is to celebrate everything positive, funky and exciting in the Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror Universe!
The SFFE is a core platform, a hub of authors who have banded together with the aim of celebrating all that is positive in genre [...]
David Eddings, one of the best loved and most influential fantasy authors in the world, has died just shy of his 78th birthday.
Born in Spokane, Washington State, he won a scholarship to Reed College, Oregon, where his ambition was to study drama. College was followed by a spell in the army followed by a work [...]
It’s difficult when a huge weight of expectation precedes the reading of any book, it’s doubly hard when you’ve met the author and he’s a nice guy so it was with some trepidation that I eventually opened Marc Charan Newton’s Nights of Villjamur but, happily, I’m glad I did. It’s a multi-layered, multi-threaded story [...]
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