REVIEW: The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott
Combine power-hungry dragons and realm-travelling magic with a contemporary fantasy setting and you get something like Kate Elliott’s novella The Keeper’s Six, which sees wearily determined mum Esther breaking the rules and getting her...
REVIEW: Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
Kate Elliott packs an assortment of fully-realized story elements into her new novella, Servant Mage. The narrative focuses on the journey of Fellian, a low-level mage, interweaving significant themes of power, class, loss, and...
REVIEW: Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliot
The first book in a new trilogy billed as ‘gender-swapped Alexander the Great in space’, Kate Elliott’s Unconquerable Sun is both a complex political thriller and an action-packed coming of age story, wrapped up...
An interview with Foz Meadows
Foz Meadows is Hugo award, Nora K. Hemming Award, and a Ditmar award for their essays, reviews, short fiction, and stories. They have appeared in everything from Uncanny Magazine to The Huffington Post. Foz...
An Interview With Ken Liu
Ken Liu is an author of both long and short-form speculative fiction; his short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories each won Locus awards for best...
REVIEW: The Book of Dragons ed. Jonathan Strahan
I came across The Book of Dragons anthology, edited by prolific, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan, while I was looking for a good upcoming book to review. Of course, I always look for something grim...