REVIEW: The Damnation of Pythos by David Annandale
The Damnation of Pythos is the story of a small part of three broken legions trying to find a way forward. Treachery has destroyed them. Their differences in creed—Iron Hands considering the flesh and...
REVIEW: Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a flintlock fantasy with a civil war / WW1 feel to it that had me engaged from page one. It’s a sad, at times suffocating, and...
Grimdark Magazine Issue #25 is here!
Welcome to a new year and a new… no, not quite yet. A new world is still a little off and many of you are still stuck in your apartments soaking your Weetbix in...
REVIEW: Legacy of Steel by Matthew Ward
In Matthew Ward’s barnstorming and epic follow up to Legacy of Ash, the battles are bigger, the characters more epic, the stakes higher, and the payoff phenomenal. Strap yourselves in, because after Legacy of...
REVIEW: Ashes of Prospero by Gav Thorpe
The Wolves are returning to Prospero. If you’re a Warhammer 40,000 fan, and you know how epic that sentence is, then you’ll love this book. Gav Thorpe’s Ashes of Prospero is full to the...
SFF books in 2021: What the GdM team can’t wait to read next year
Welcome to 2021, where the SFF books we’re excited about are just as good as those we loved from 2020, but hopefully with the world not on fire or drowning in plague this time!...
REVIEW: Alice in Borderland
Set in an empty Tokyo, Alice in Borderland, a crazy Japanese sci-fi murder-fest is a brilliant romp well worth investing your time in if you like Battle Royale and other twisted game-master-kills-lots-of-people type movies....
Best SFF books of 2020
Well, it’s been a hell of a year. Pretty much everything has been a little bit rubbish except for 2020’s book releases–so it’s time for Grimdark Magazine’s best SFF books of 2020. We have a...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Winner of the Matthew Ward Pay it Forward Competition
A few months back, we announced the Matthew Ward Pay it Forward Competition because Ward–being an utter legend–refused payment for a story we acquired from him and asked that I pay it forward to...
5 brilliant Polish SFF book covers
I was sitting down in a Sydney pub with Jeremy Szal (author of the brilliant Stormblood and the upcoming Blindspace) when the topic of book covers came up. We’d been discussing my completion of the Red...