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It has been a while, authors. AI reared its ugly head causing widespread problems across the fiction industry for publishers, authors, artists, and competition runners, and because of that, we shut our gates for...
REVIEW: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
In Pierce Brown’s Iron Gold the Ash Lord and the Last Fury hold Venus as their final bastion of the old order of the Society, and Darrow returns home to petition the senate for...
REVIEW: Crackle and Fire: An Angela Hardwicke Sci-Fi Mystery by Russ Colchamiro
Crackle and Fire: An Angela Hardwicke Sci-Fi Mystery is one of those rare finds for me as a discerning indie book reader. Basically, it was a random buy. Unlike the majority of my books...
REVIEW: Stimulant
Stimulant is a 2023 Canadian science fiction/cyberpunk movie. It has strong vibes like the Channel 4/AMC show Humans as well as David Cage video game Detroit: Become Human. Basically, it has elements of Blade...
REVIEW: Starship Velociraptor by Galactikraken
Starship Velociraptor is a power metal album by Galactikraken (AKA Jonathan Young). Jonathan Young is primarily known for doing metal covers of existing songs on Youtube and you haven’t quite heard the Pokemon theme until...
Ten cinematic sci-fi and fantasy novels for grimdark fans
As avid readers, we know it’s always a great time to pick up a good book. With Hollywood on strike, now is an especially opportune time to discover great new reads, especially those with...
REVIEW: Thralls of a Tyrant God by Mars G. Everson
Thralls of a Tyrant God is book one of The God Engine series – a dark fantasy epic from Mars G. Everson. Blending elements of sci-fi and fantasy, this debut novel introduces a world...
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: Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams
I’m a big fan of the Cyberpunk 2077 comics by Dark Horse comics. I’ve been starved for cyberpunk content for the past decade and Cyberpunk 2077 only slightly scratched that itch. It’s a marriage...
REVIEW: Ascension by Nicholas Binge
Ascension by Nicholas Binge is an epistolary novel where well-respected physicist, Harry Tunmore, documents the investigation of the scientific team he is a part of, who are exploring the bizarre appearance of a giant...