Author Archives: Pete Richmond

Superstructure of the Week: Ringworld

by Logan LePage Larry Niven’s Ringworld was published in 1970 and immediately became one of the standards for which to compare other superstructures to. In the story, a gargantuan ring is explored by the long lived Louis Wu, the lucky Teela Brown, the insane Nessus, and the ferocious Speaker-to-Animals. Being a million miles across, with a diameter of 186 million

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Tchaikovsky is King of British Fantasy

Adrian Tchaikovsky continues his recent run of success with the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel from the British Fantasy Society for The Tiger and the Wolf. Tchaikovsky rose to prominence with his Shadows of the Apt series of fantasy novels, wherein he released an astonishing ten novels in the series between 2008 and 2014. However, his departure from the series

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Emma Cline Takes Top Jackson Award

The Shirley Jackson Awards celebrate “outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction” and are considered one of the premier awards in horror literature. This is the top of the game for horror writers and a true honour for any author wanting to follow in the footsteps of one of the genre’s great contributors. The awards are voted

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George RR Martin Recognised for his “Historical” Writing

At their second annual conference the Historical Writers of America will award their PastWords Award to seven artists whose “work illuminates the past”. The award was setup “to recognize creators who have produced an outstanding body of work.” Among the winners of the 2017 awards is none other than A Song of Ice and Fire, and therefore TV sensation Game of

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