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RELEASED OUT NOW! 344 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Steve Feasey Publisher Bloomsbury A magic sword, an abandoned baby of mysterious origins, and a malevolent sorcerer looking to plunge the world into chaos… Dark Blade ticks off a lot of epic fantas

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All fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if” question, which serves as the premise and drives the plot. But for fantasy author Kij Johnson, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award, the specific genre of speculative fiction adds its

Writer's Digest

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David Burns says the reason why fantasy is such an old but thriving literary genre is that fantasy stories speak to emotional truths. “A good fantasy story is going to make you feel something and resonate about subjects such as love, family and the n

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RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Alix E Harrow Publisher Orbit Books Sometimes, all it takes is one sentence. In the case of Alix Harrow’s debut, it’s this: “In the fall of 1903 I was nine, and the world was tasting t

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Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

Writing Magazine

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The University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies has launched the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. The new venture’s inaugural event was a free Zoom lecture on 16 September by fantasy author Ellen Kushner, followed by a discussion panel on f

Popshot Magazine

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ISSUE 25 — FANTASY AUTUMN 2019 There are no limits on fantasy. Yet, in literature it is so heavily steeped in genre it’s impossible not to think of warring kingdoms, dragons, unicorns, witches and other supernatural tropes. Fantasy with a capital F i

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Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

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Neal Shusterman’s latest, GAME CHANGER (out now, Walker) centres on a teenage American football player, who’s… oh right, you’ve lost interest before I mention how he bounces into parallel worlds, right? Fair enough. Hannah Mathewson’s debut WITHERWAR

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RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

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FableCroft Publishing is an Australian independent press of speculative fiction. The editorial team has been ‘so tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story.

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MEET THE COMPLIANCE MANAGER BEHIND YA FANTASY NOVEL KINGDOM OF SOULS Tell us about your protagonist. Arrah hails from a powerful family of witchdoctors, but doesn’t have magic of her own. When the Demon King threatens her kingdom, she must trade year

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As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no

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LOCATION: Philippines MEDIA: Photoshop WEB: www.jbcasacop.com “An artwork for The Lord of the Rings card game. I used myself and my practice sword as a reference.” “Another LOTR card game piece. I enjoyed detailing the clothes and the expression of t

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 880 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Christopher Paolini Publisher Tor Never an author to let a good cliché go to waste, Christopher Paolini, the author behind epic fantasy Eragon (famously written before he’d started shaving

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US indie Stark Raven Press specialises in fantastic and speculative literature, particularly horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. They publish novels, collections, and anthologies of fiction, and occasionally non-fiction in print and ebook. Sub

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Every genre has its tropes, and fantasy is no different. We’ve explored archetypes in these pages before, which refer much more to recurring characters and character types. Tropes are more general themes and motifs that occur within an area of fictio

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Original ‘thought provoking weird fiction’ in the form of fantasy, science fiction and horror are wanted for Hypnos, which twice a year publishes pieces in the vein of HP Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe an

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RELEASED 30 APRIL Publisher Rebellion Writer Alf Wallace Artist Luis Bermejo COLLECTION British comics have often cheerfully taken the “steal whatever isn’t nailed down” approach to storytelling ideas, but they’ve rarely done it in such an impressive

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Louise Erdrich PAGES 267 GENRE Sci-Fi IF REAL LIFE SEEMS TO BE tipping further toward dystopia lately, it makes sense that art would follow—even for a novelist as earthbound and richly humanist as Louise Erdrich. Though her latest actually foun

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Literary independent Galley Beggar Press will open its submissions window for full-length manuscripts between 15 and 31 July. Galley Beggar Press publishes literary fiction for adult readers. Writers may submit novel manuscripts, short story collecti

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Since 1976, the literary magazine Lilith has published poetry and prose with the goals of amplifying Jewish women’s voices and empowering Jewish girls and women in their lives and in their communities. Editor-in-Chief Susan Weidman Schneider is of th

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

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Author Dian Hanson Publisher Taschen Price £150 Web www.taschen.com Available Now Taschen’s Masterpieces of Fantasy Art showcases imaginative art primarily from the 20th century, in a mammoth, highly produced hardback. Yet this mouth-watering prospec

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

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Verily is a US web journal for women. The editorial team ‘sifts through the noise of the world to elevate what is honest, real, and beautiful for the modern woman’. Columns requiring subs are Travel with a Local about the ‘hidden gems’ in your neighb

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Win $500 for a 100-word book blurb in The QueryLetter.com Writing Contest. To enter, send a book blurb (up to 100 words) for a hypothetical novel, setting the stage, establishing the characters and raising the stakes so readers want to read on. One w