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Overcaptain (The Saga Of The Recluce book 24) by L.E. Modesitt (book review).
‘Overcaptain’ is the 24th volume in the Saga of Recluce, but fear not, reader. You don’t have to read twenty-three other books to…
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October 2025
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The Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely (book review).
‘The Lost Reliquary’ effectively engages the reader from the very first line. The protagonist, Lys, is part of the crowd gathered for the…
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The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin – The Once and Future Streamer (trailer).
At long last, King Arthur is getting another go. Apparently, the BBC hasn’t cornered the market on moody wizards and morally conflicted knights,…
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Lives Of Bitter Rain (The Tyrant Philosophers book 5) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
Can a young orphan girl, lacking any particular talent except for sword-fighting, ascend through the ranks of a tough, ruthless regime aiming to…
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The Last Spirits Of Manhattan by John A. McDermott (book review).
A novel that showcases the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Fonda, Charles Addams, and other influential figures from 1950s America is likely to…
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Don’t Go To Work The World Is Ending by Paul Dalton (book review).
When a new writer comes on the scene, the problem always is to make the reading public pick it up for a closer…
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The Mighty Nein: seven heroes, nine brain cells, and one world about to regret hiring them (fantasy TV series trailer).
Crikes, The Mighty Nein — proof that even in fantasy worlds of dragons, gods, and all-powerful relics, the real danger is still a…
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: fantasy TV series (first trailer).
Sharpen your broadswords and brace your emotional support ravens, dear readers — the first trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has…
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The Silverblood Promise (The Last Legacy book 1) by James Logan (book review).
‘The Silverblood Promise’ is a debut novel by James Logan and makes for an engaging read. Can the disgraced heir to an ancient…
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Magic At The Grand Dragonfly Theatre by Brandie June (book review).
Too many fantasy novels involve themselves with the politics of the created world. The plot often centres on characters who seek power or…
September 2025
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Brisco County, Jr.: How the West was weird (video).
There was a brief, shining moment in the early ’90s when primetime telly let a wise-cracking Harvard man on a horse lasso time…
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Dice, Dwarfs & Doom: September 2025’s Plastic Fantastic (tabletop/figures news roundup).
Crikey. September 2025 has barely given us time to finish painting last year’s backlog, and the games industry has already hurled another avalanche…