The SFcrowsnest archive
Once a series has reached eleven volumes, even if they are slim novella-length books, it is likely to have accumulated a faithful readership.…
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, a cryptid is a creature that appears in mythology or folklore but has not been…
‘The Wayward Children’ books are written with the teenage reader in mind but can be enjoyed by all ages. The tales revolve around…
The Impossible City exists just beyond everything. It is a place that isn’t a place, architecture that isn’t really there, yet it is…
Once upon a time Summer and Winter found human shapes and found that they liked them. Human belief gave them shape and blood…
Most readers will be familiar with Lewis Carroll’s 1885 novel relating ‘The Adventures Of Alice In Wonderland’, where a child falls down a…
‘Come Tumbling Down’ is book 5 in the ‘Wayward Children’ series by Seanan McGuire. Each of the books in the series so far…
Authors are very good at hunting out little documented information and embroidering it to produce something potentially spectacular. It is rare for anything…
Once, the usual format for publishing was the one-off book, the standalone. This had one set of characters which occurred only with the…
‘In An Absent Dream’ is book four in ‘The Wayward Children’ series by Seanan McGuire. Therefore I would suggest you don’t read this…
While the novelisation of a film makes sense, especially as some viewers like to have a record, particularly of the dialogue. Admittedly this…
The genesis of a novel can sometimes be as fascinating as the book itself. In his later years, some of Ray Bradbury’s short…
