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Posts Tagged ‘fiction’

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

There’s been a clutch of historical/genre mash-ups hitting the shelves recently, the first of which was probably Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and while I can see the appeal I’ve not read any of them so I wasn’t sure about ‘Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter’ but, once I got started, it soon became very [...]

War Of The Words Competition

Leading consumer specialist magazine SciFiNow and highly regarded SF imprint Tor UK have teamed up to launch a new competition, War Of The Words, in a bid to find the UK’s best new SF writer. The partnership will be announced to readers in SciFiNow issue 28, on sale 13 May.
Both SciFiNow and Tor UK are [...]

Hope #1

Hope is a new multi-part fanzine raising money for bushfire relief in the Australian state of Victoria. It is edited by Grant Watson with contributions donated by writers, artists and fans in Australia and from overseas. It is supported by the Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF), and has received assistance from the [...]

Book Review - Scar Night

By Alan Campbell
Scar Night, first book in The Deepgate Codex series, is the brilliantly atmospheric debut novel from Scottish author and ex Rockstar Games programmer, Alan Campbell.
The Deepgate of the series title is a city that hangs suspended on chains over an enormous black abyss. Over many millennia, this network of chains has [...]