Authun, mighty warrior, king of the northern vikings and descendant of the god Odin is cursed to sire only female offspring because, supposedly, Odin fears the strength a son of Authun would possess. But Authin will not be denied an heir and, acting on a prophecy of the witches of the Troll Wall, [...]
Top notch YA sci-fi & fantasy author Oisin McGann has just released a new novella gloriously titled ‘The Vile Desire to Scream‘ absolutely
I visited EasterCon a couple of weeks ago and while I was there I had the chance to meet with another Gollancz debutante, fantasy author Sam Sykes, vising the UK all the way from Flagstaff, Arizona to promote his novel Tome of the Undergates, heroic fantasy that pits a team of mismatched ne’er do wells [...]
You have to feel just slightly sorry for Sam Sykes. He’s only 25 and yet Tome of the Undergates has been hailed as the biggest fantasy debut of 2010 and, as it comes from the Gollancz stable, he follows in the footsteps of writers like Joe Abercrombie, Pat Rothfuss, Scott Lynch and Tom Lloyd, [...]
I’ll come clean from the beginning here by saying that I love this series and not just because it’s great story-telling, but because it does so many things really well. On the surface it’s an epic story of war that ranges across continents, told through the eyes of a small band of people from [...]
After the breathtaking start to the series that was Scar Night and the incredible cliffhanger that marked the ending of Iron Angel, I expected a lot of this, the conclusion of one of the most imaginative fantasy series to come along in ages, Alan Campbell’s Deepgate Codex. However, despite some decent set pieces, I [...]
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