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...
Where to read your favourite authors for free (without being a pirate bastard)
Let’s face it, if you download people’s books without paying for them, and without the author or publisher’s permission to download them for free, you are a pirate bastard. It’s pretty black and white....
EXCLUSIVE: The Prologue of Legacy of Steel by Matthew Ward
Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward was hands down one of the best books of last year. When I saw the glorious cover for Legacy of Steel hit the interwebs and read up on the...
EXCLUSIVE: Extract of The Stone Knife by Anna Stephens
The GdM team and I are big fans of Anna Stephens, author of the magnificent Godblind, and when word of her new series through Orbit dropped, we clamoured to get a hold of The Stone...
REVIEW: Morning Star by Pierce Brown
In Morning Star, the final book in the Red Rising trilogy, we catch back up with Darrow and it’d be an understatement to say he’s in a tight spot. His rebellion in tatters, his...
Exclusive cover reveal for Blindspace by Jeremy Szal
After exploding onto the science fiction scene with his barnstorming adrenaline-fest, alien drug-fuelled debut, Stormblood, Jeremy Szal is back with Blindspace, book two in The Common. Blindspace isn’t scheduled for release by Gollancz until October...