REVIEW: Silo (AppleTV)
Silo is the brilliant new, dystopian TV series based on the best-selling sci-fi novels written by Hugh Howey. The silo is a 144-floor indoor city that is meant to hold the last humans alive...
The best dark SFF of 2023 so far
It’s that time of the year. Apologise to your TBR piles in advance because the Grimdark Magazine review team is about to make it rain new books at your house! 2023 had had some brilliant dark...
REVIEW: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Hyperion, the Hugo Award-winning 1989 novel by Dan Simmons, is one of the greatest classics of grimdark science fiction. An interstellar coalition of 29 th -century humans known as the Hegemony of Man is...
Discussing 36 Streets, cyberpunk, and D&D with T.R. Napper
Many of our followers will know T.R. Napper from our publication of his brilliant short story collection, Neon Leviathan. On Jan 18 in Australia, and Feb 8 for the rest of the world, Titan...
REVIEW: Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey
Leviathan Falls is the ninth book and conclusion of The Expanse series that has successfully gone on to become a roleplaying game, television show, and the basis of numerous spin off novellas. It is...
Best dark SFF books of 2021
Well, 2021 was pretty much another bag of sweaty dicks of a year with lockdowns, deaths, separation, isolation, bloody zoom meetings, and dead arms. However, the publishing industry great and small, despite paper shortages,...
Blade Runner: The importance of not being special
Blade Runner 2049 is a movie I very much enjoyed (you can read my review here) but it’s an interesting film for me because I realized it nicely inverts a lot of what was...
REVIEW: Fallen Angels by Anna Mocikat
Behind Blue Eyes was a fascinating book by Anna Mocikat that followed the adventures of a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier named Nephilim. Working for a corrupt and evil corporation that ruled most of America, Nephilim...
REVIEW: Nophek Gloss by Essa Hansen
Nophek Gloss is a story that pushes the boundlessness of the reader’s imagination. It is innovative, harsh, extraordinary, and it is science fiction at its best. I am not sure how to classify Nophek...
Cyberpunk: Where to start reading
Want to understand the surveillance-state dystopia our world has descended into? Need a primer on our cyberpunk present? Desperate to know what comes after the plague? Well friends, you’ve come to the right place....