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Ramsey Campbell Invites Readers to Embrace the Dark in 2027 (book news).
Veteran horror writer Ramsey Campbell will be opening another door marked “Absolutely Do Not Enter” in 2027, when Flame Tree Press publishes his…
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Books
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July 2026
ReviewScifi
Voice Of The Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams (book review).
If you’ve followed my interest in the Wild Cards shared-world book series, then you may also have thought about looking at the individual…
ReviewFantasy
The Iron Code: Stories In Honour Of David Gemmell edited by Ian Whates (book review).
This anthology is published to mark twenty years since the death of fantasy author David Gemmell, whose most famous character was Druss the…
ReviewScifi
Brain Fruit by Stephen Oram (book review).
Brain Fruit by Stephen Oram is a standalone zoefuturist science fiction novella. Zoefuturism focuses on connectedness, constant change and life-becomings rather than fixed,…
ReviewHorror
Paranormal Payback edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes (book review).
One of the most popular sub-genres of fantasy deals with the paranormal, its pages littered with witches, ghosts, vampires and the occasional zombie.…
ReviewScifi
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner (book review).
John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider was among the books mentioned in Vernor Vinge’s True Names. It is divided into three sections that follow…
NewsHorror
Helen Grant Conjures Up a New Literary Agent for Purslane the Witch (news).
Novelist Helen Grant has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency with her new novel, Purslane the Witch, a tale combining malevolent magic, disappearing…
ReviewBooks
True Names And The Opening Of The Cyberscience Frontier by Vernor Vinge (book review).
A quick spin through the opening credits of this book, True Names And The Opening Of The Cyberspace Frontier, reveals Vernor Vinge’s story…
ReviewBooks
The Antikythera Mechanism by Charles Rivers Editors (book review).
Truth to tell, I still can’t pronounce Antikythera. However, I needed to do some research into a recognised astronomical device and thought The…
ReviewHorror
The Queen by Nick Cutter (book review).
I read The Queen in mid-July, just as the first wasps began to appear in southern England, a good time for insect horror.…
NewsFantasy
Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once again that arranged…
ReviewScifi
These Broken Little Words (Polestars 13) by E.M. Faulds (book review).
When I was offered These Broken Little Worlds for review, I checked my computer banks and found that I had enjoyed two stories…