One of the true pleasures of fantasy fiction is that some tales thrill, some make you ponder, and still others, the finest, do both at once; Sephirot manages the singular accomplishment of having done neither and taken an age to not do them. Reading over three hundred pages longing for the potential which occasionally crops up to come to fruition,
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12th November 2020 – The Stitcher and The Mute – D.K. Fields There’s power in stories. But power comes at a price. Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man who strangled the Wayward storyteller. But he was just a small part of a much bigger tale. Someone powerful ordered a murder on Cora’s patch. That someone still lurks in the
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5th November 2020 – The Key to Fear – Kristin Cast Elodie obeys The Key. Elodie obeys the rules. Elodie trusts in the system. At least, Elodie used to… Aidan is a rebel. Aidan doesn’t do what he’s told. Aidan just wants to be free. Aidan is on his last chance… After a pandemic wiped out most of the human
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29th October – The Saints of Salvation – Peter F. Hamilton Live in hiding – or die for freedom Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. But mankind was tricked. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price. For two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. One by one, cities are
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15th October – Phoenix Extravagant – Yoon Ha Lee Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers. But when Jebi discovers the depths
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6th October – Once Upon Another World – Anthology Not all fairy tales are as they appear. Was it actually Red who hunted the wolf? What if the prince was the one in distress? Did the straw really get spun into gold? How well did those glass slippers truly fit? Where princesses do their own rescuing, princes aren’t who they
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Apex Magazine has today announced the launch of their Holiday Horrors Flash Fiction Competition. With a hard limit of only 250 words in which to craft your horrifying holiday tale, flash fiction is a challenge for all writers! There’s a $25 prize for the winner, as well as getting their work published in Issue #121 of Apex Magazine. The competition
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that C.L. Clark will be the new SFWA Blog Editor. She takes over from the previous incumbent Todd Vandermark, who stepped down earlier this year. C.L. Clark has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing from Indiana University and is currently best know as one of the co-editors
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The Sunburst Award Society has announced that The Sunburst Awards For Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic will be going on Hiatus. The incredible global impact of the Covid-19 virus has taken another victim, although it seems that this one will not be a permanent closure. The Sunburst Award Society announced the hiatus on their website, full quote below,
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Dark Moon Digest, a quarterly magazine from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, have launched Night Frights magazine, an annual release aimed at Young Adults. In this inaugural edition of our annual young adult magazine, monsters take revenge on a school board who cancels Halloween; a kid and some teens try to get a balloon out of a tree; witches recruit a
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