On SFF, Gender, and Expanding Boundaries

Recently there was big news in SFF when author Victoria Schwab signed a million dollar deal with Tor books. This Continue reading →

The Shelf Life of Secret History During Interesting Times, by Tom Doyle

My American Craftsmen trilogy is a saga of magician-soldiers and psychic spies. It has a backstory in which Poe and Continue reading →

Writing Fiction in a Time of Genuine Crisis, by Patrick S. Tomlinson

A funny thing happened to me one year ago today. A random tweet throwing shade at the typical right-wing response Continue reading →

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 2

Welcome back, readers, to the second instalment of my look at interesting and novel magic systems. The first article can Continue reading →

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 1

One of the most enduring tropes in fantasy as a genre is the presence of magic in the setting. Magic Continue reading →

Top Five Books Not Published in 2015

Well it’s that time of the year. The time of lists. And no review site would be complete with a Continue reading →

The Forgotten Realms

The Forgotten Realms is a fantasy setting which was created by Ed Greenwood in the 1960s, which came to commercial Continue reading →

Ranking, Rating and Reviewing

It is pretty much a given, in the internet age, that if there is a website where you can buy Continue reading →