ReviewFantasy
The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman (book review).
Kinch’s career as a highwayman ends abruptly when a single foreign fighter defeats his whole band. He’s not all that disappointed. A fully…
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May 2021
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Wolf Rain (A Psy-Changeling Trinity Novel #18) by Nalini Singh (book review).
There are readers who like the comfort of knowing, roughly, what will happen in a book. This is why the Mills & Boon…
NewsFantasy
Roger Zelazny: one of the great genre writers (audio documentary).
Here’s an hour-long video where F. Brett Cox pops in to chat with David Barr Kirtley about the life and works of Roger…
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Cthulhu: Dark Fantasy, Horror & Supernatural Movies by Gordon Kerr (book review).
From the striking front cover painting of Cthulhu literally eating the world through to the mind-flayer smoking a pipe on page 89, ‘Cthulhu:…
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/Jun 2021, Volume 140 #755 (magazine review).
The first thing you notice about this issue of MF&SF is the distinctive cover by David A Hardy. Atypically, it doesn’t quite illustrate…
NewsFantasy
Guy Gavriel Kay gives the 2021 Tolkien Lecture (video).
Our old chum fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay gives the eighth annual J.R.R Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature. When Christopher Tolkien needed an…
TrailerFantasy
The Green Knight: fantasy movie trailer (Arthurian legend goes back to Vance’s Lyonesse).
At last, an Arthurian fantasy movie that ejects the faux-Middle Earth feels for the strange spirit of Jack Vance’s Lyonesse trilogy of books,…
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Game of Thrones: saving the TV series with a new ending? (video).
In this short 15-minute-long video piece, the most critical of thinkers – I mean, drinkers – examines the shoddy ending of the Game…
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Mortal Kombat (a fantasy film review by Mark Kermode).
Mark Kermode, our man of many movies is doing you a solid one this week, by sitting down in front of the new Mortal…
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Mythanimus by Storm Constantine (book review).
An issue that many writers of short stories have is that their output is likely to appear in many disparate publications such as…
April 2021
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The Knights Of Heliopolis by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jérémy (graphic novel review)
‘The Knights Of Heliopolis’ is a historical fantasy drama by Alejandro Jodorowsky with colourful and stylish art by Jérémy. The original work was…
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Vengewar (Wake The Dragon book 2) by Kevin J. Anderson (book review)
‘Vengewar (Wake The Dragon book 2) is the follow-up volume to ‘Spine Of The Dragon’ and the second part of Kevin J. Anderson’s…