I grew up in Australia and while I loved the wide open spaces, sports and social side, as an only child I also spent a lot of time on my own. I was always very bookish and loved writing too whether it was for school essays which required research or English short stories. I originally trained as a hotel manager
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Independent publishing house Head of Zeus has announced the launch of Ad Astra, a new imprint at the cutting edge of high concept Science Fiction and Fantasy. “I’ve been a fan [of Science Fiction] since the age of 11 when I traded my stamp album for a copy of HG Wells’s collected short stories, and I’ve never looked back. But
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Editor: We’re delighted to welcome Roy back for his second Featured Friday interview. You can read his first interview from back in 2016 here. Roy Huff is a Hawaii-based best-selling author, peer-reviewed research scientist, and teacher. After overcoming significant childhood poverty in the US mainland, he moved to the islands and hasn’t looked back. Despite his challenges, which include a
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FiyahCon, the virtual convention centering the perspectives and celebrating the contributions of BIPOC in speculative fiction, has recently announced the addition of the Ignyte Awards to their inaugural FiyahCon event. “The Awards seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts
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Innovation can mean the difference between progress and stagnation, wonder and woe, seeing the return of dim days or a new age of enlightenment. An innovative world is one where you can immerse yourself and learn something new, see a trope turned on its head, meet characters that will frequent the passages of your mind, navigating by the spark of
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There is something about this book that manages to transcend being just a great story and manages to reach out and touch the reader. The great “classic” works of speculative fiction, think Lord of the Rings or Dune, impress the reader with grand visions of alien and fantastical worlds. Transporting you from your own world into the author’s vision, leaving
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Scott Kimak is a history teacher and Kung Fu master. He came up with the story “I call him – HIM” when he was a teenager but failed miserably to put pen to paper. It took nearly forty years for him to make a second attempt. This time the words flowed unrestrained. Mr. Kimak lives in Harlingen Texas with the
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4th August 2020 – Final Days: Escape – Jasper T. Scott & Nathan Hystad The secret of their new home has been revealed.Now there’s only one thing left to do…Escape.Andrew and Kendra have learned what’s on the other side of the ridge, but it leaves them with more questions than answers. Their colony has turned into a dictatorship under the
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Why a Beyond Twilight bundle? It’s been more than fifteen years since Bella and Edward became household names, and while Twilight captured the imagination of a generation, today’s world is very different. From #metoo, to politics to science and culture, the world is beyond Twilight. Vampires have evolved. This bundle is about what’s next.
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Reviewed by Srijani Ganguly As the title seems to suggest, there are plenty of battles in Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’. Each side is engrossed in a continuous game of one-upmanship, turning and twisting the events of the past and the future to suit their objective. To do so, they infiltrate the
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