This years SCI-FI-LONDON Oktoberfest brings together some fine science-fiction authors to debate the relevance of writing about space travel and interplanetary colonisation in a day and age where we know the time taken and costs involved make it largely an irrelevance for most of us. Against this backdrop we have issues such as climate [...]
Mythago Wood entered the fantasy consciousness twenty-five years ago, the tragic tale of a repressed post-war family pulled apart by the mysterious Ryhope Wood, and it became an instant cult-classic. Ryhope itself is both ingenious and fascinating, on the outside it’s three square miles of ring-fenced ancient woodlands in Hertfordshire but it is a [...]
Vampire fever is about to bite again……
With the film release of ‘New Moon’ just around the corner and ‘True Blood’ getting raves on TV, the fascination and obsession for Vampires continues unabated. Why? What is the appeal?
Vampire myths have existed throughout the ages all over the world and have appeared in some shape [...]
Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne is woken in the middle of the night by his fencing master and the Master of Mechaniks who sneak him away in a walker, a mechanised, two-legged, tank. Discovering his parents assassinated and his country at war he realises that his title is all but worthless [...]
Shortly after her husband, Liam, dies unexpectedly, strange things start happening around Jasmyn Gracey. Dead swans fall from the sky at his funeral - black swans - and strange people, people she never heard of before, show up on her doorstep. At her grandparents stables a man on a huge black horse seems [...]
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