24th September 2019 – Grave Importance – Vivian Shaw Meet Greta Helsing, Doctor to the Undead In the hills above Marseille, Oasis Natrun is a highly secret health spa for mummies, equipped with the very latest therapeutic innovations both magical and medical. To Dr Greta Helsing, it sounds like paradise. But when she takes the job of interim clinical director,
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17th September 2019 – A Little Hatred – Joe Abercrombie War. Politics. Revolution.The Age of Madness has arrived . . . The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat
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10th September 2019 – Reluctant King – Montana Ash A demon who would be king and an angel assassin; together they will discover that Purgatory can be both Heaven and Hell. Demon. Soldier. King. As General of the Demon Horde of Purgatory, Abraxis was never supposed to rule. But when a hidden enemy begins to pick off the royals –
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2nd September 2019 – The Free Citizen – TJ Sedgwick Earth, 2082. Operative Calvin Rae infiltrates an enemy space station to steal a revolutionary prototype on behalf of President White, Father of the Renaissance. But the Space Station Erasmus is infected with the alien parasite which has spread across Europe and now threatens the American Union’s twelve Sanctuary Cities. Back
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Alongside the annual pinnacle of the award season that are The Hugo Awards, is the lesser known Retrospective Hugo Award ceremony. Created to honour those works in years past in which there were no Hugo Awards awarded, the Retrospective Hugos (which really should be called the Retgos) were this year the 1944 awards, for those works published in 1943. The
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Fresh off the back of a Hugo win, Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars continues its relentless march across the speculative fiction award scene with a latest nomination for The Sidewise Awards. The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best alternate history genre publications of the year. The first awards were announced in
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26th August 2019 – Night Driving and Other Worlds – Ryan Kennedy Nothing is unremarkable if you look closely enough. Wherever there are people, there are stories that have gone untold, passing by in an instant and forming a much larger tale that will, unfortunately, have to be told somewhere else. Within these pages are those small moments; from times
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WorldCon is all set to return to Washington DC with the successful, unopposed bid to host WorldCon 2021. DisCon III, as it will be known, will as the name suggests be the third time that the event has been held in Washington DC, with events I and II taking place back in 1963 and 1974 respectively. DisCon III, the 79th
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The team at StokerCon have recently announced that Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series, is to join the convention line up as the 2020 Author Guest of Honour. His Anno Dracula series is set in an alternate (to Stoker’s reality) history where the original protagonists were not able to prevent Dracula’s conquest of Great Britain. His work encompasses
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Silver turned to gold at Mythcon 50 as Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver took home the star prize of Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. The Mythopoeic Awards are given out to those works that are decided to have best exemplified “the Spirit of the Inklings”, the famous Oxford writing group that counted JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis among its members.
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