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Matthew Ward returns to Aradane, where the gods have woken up in a foul mood.
Matthew Ward heads back to the world of his Legacy Trilogy with The Silverlight Trilogy, signed to The Broken Binding Publishing and due…
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October 2026
NewsFantasy
World Fantasy Awards 2026: M. R. Carey and Clive Barker give Liverpool a fantasy double (award news).
M. R. Carey's Once Was Willem wins the 2026 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and Clive Barker shares the Life Achievement award…
ReviewScifi
More Women Of Wonder edited by Pamela Sargent (book review)
GF Willmetts tracks down More Women of Wonder, Pamela Sargent's 1976 anthology of SF novelettes by women, where Joan Vinge's 'Tin Soldier' is…
NewsFantasy
Lizard Music: Benny Safdie’s Daniel Pinkwater adaptation lands on Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken Man (film news).
Amazon MGM has dated Benny Safdie's Lizard Music, adapted from Daniel Pinkwater's novel, for Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken…
NewsFantasy
Narnia gets new jackets by Vance Kovacs, and Aslan has sneaked onto every one of them (book news).
HarperCollins unveils Vance Kovacs's movie-inspired Narnia covers for Gerwig's The Magician's Nephew, with hardcovers and box sets from November.
NewsFantasy
A Court of Splintered Harmony: Prythian tunes up for 27 October, leaks, teeth and all (spoiler-free book news).
Sarah J. Maas readers have spent two months staring at a cover of burning bones and a set of teeth as if it…
NewsFantasy
Fourth Wing finds its Violet and Xaden, and BookTok’s favourite fancast actually comes true (news).
Somewhere in Navarre, a dragon has just been told to hold still for a costume fitting. Prime Video’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth…
ReviewFantasy
Songs Of The Dead: The Strata Wars book 1 by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian (book review).
Collaborative writing is difficult to master. Some, like Iain Grant and Heide Goody, produce fiction where it is almost impossible to separate the…
NewsFantasy
Artemis Fowl Gets a Second Wish as Disney Tries Again in Animation
Disney greenlights an animated Artemis Fowl series for Disney+ with Eoin Colfer as executive producer, six years after the Branagh film.
ReviewFantasy
The Deep And The Drowned (Cutlass & Crow book 1) by Ian Green (book review)
Pauline Morgan finds Ian Green's grimdark nautical fantasy, The Deep And The Drowned, cluttered, confusing and short on characters worth following.
NewsScifi
V.E. Schwab’s Victorious: Villains trilogy finally ends, only eight years late
The third and final Villains novel from V.E. Schwab is published by Tor Books on 6 October 2026, closing the long feud between…
September 2026
ReviewFantasy
Last Of The First: 26 (Saga Of Recluce book 26) by L.E. Modesitt (book review).
Don’t start here, but don’t read the other twenty-five books first. While Last Of The First is Book 26 of the Saga Of…