PaulineMorgan, Author at SFcrowsnest

A Companion To Science Fiction edited by David Seed (book review).

The first question that always needs to be asked about any non-fiction book is who is it aimed at and

Proof copies of books are produced for a number of reasons. An author always likes to know what the finished

A feature that favours the best magazines is consistency. This is not just in the quality of the contents, though

The difference between a writer of fantasy and a mainstream writer can be so negligible that it only happens in

When an author lovingly creates a universe, giving it a plausible background history and spreads it over a vast area

There is something in the way that SF writers will flirt with the crime genre, but rarely the other way

Once upon a time the prospect of a self-published book filled a reviewer with dread. So many of them had

There are a lot of books around at the moment that call themselves urban fantasy. Many of them have mythical

Anthologies of short stories often have a theme around which all the stories are based. The best provide a wide

Whenever a Science Fiction novel is reprinted after a space of a number of years, there is always the question