Black Static # 20 – Dec 2010-Jan 2011 (magazine review).
A feature that favours the best magazines is consistency. This is not just in the quality of the contents, though
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Read MoreAt the present time, Urban Fantasy as a sub-genre of standard fantasy is still on a high. As a result,
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