The Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog continues to be a great source of recs for the discerning reader. They had a fine summary of the Best SF and Fantasy of 2015, and their monthly list of the best new books on the shelves is an excellent resource (our most recent look was back in March, when their list included Myke Cole’s Javelin Rain and Adrian Selby’s Snakewood.) This week Sam Reader takes a look at seven recent SF and fantasy short…
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May, why do you do this to me? There are so many dynamite new fantasy books hitting the stands, I scarcely know where to look. And I have absolutely no idea where I’ll find the have time to read any of them. Well, I’ll worry about that later. The task at hand is to introduce you to the 30 most intriguing fantasy titles released this month. And trust me, I had a heck of a time whittling it down to 30….
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One of the most reliable magazines out there for adventure fantasy, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, has just produced their 24th quarterly issue. This one contains short stories by Cullen Groves, Dennis Mombauer, and Andrea G. Stewart, poetry by Coleen Anderson and David Farney, striking banner art by Serbian artist Vuk Kostic, and news on their upcoming anthology, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Volume 1. The short stories are: The Madness of the Mansa, by Cullen Groves There are mysterious goings-on in the city…
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The nominees for the 2015 Hugo Awards have been announced by Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, and let’s be blunt: it’s a terrible ballot. Here’s a brief recap: over the last few years a number of writers (primarily conservative Americans) have become increasingly convinced that the growing number of women and non-white authors winning Hugo Awards is somehow evidence that the awards have been ‘hijacked’ by a minority group of voters and social justice warriors (SJWs). Their concerns…
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This week I read an advance copy of the second book in Mark Chadbourn’s series of espionage-fantasy-adventure novels, Swords of Albion. The Scar-Crow Men begins with the first performance of Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus, and the story of the novel and the story of Faust end up connecting in a number of ways. It got me thinking about Faust, and why the story of Faust has flourished in the centuries since Marlowe wrote, and how many different ideas about…
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Well, I’ve finally returned to the Black Gate rooftop headquarters here in St. Charles, Illinois, after a weary week of travel. We had the largest team gathering in the magazine’s history at the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio last weekend — including several Contributing Editors, half a dozen bloggers, and over two dozen writers and contributors. I started the magazine ten years ago and have been attending conventions for decades, and there were several long-term staff members I met for the first…
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224 pages, $9.95 On Sale March 31, 2009 Edited by John O’Neill Published by New Epoch Press Website Editor: Dave Munger Cover by Malcolm McClinton Spot Art by Bernie Mireault Interior Art by Kent Burles, Storn Cook, Mark Evans, Leif Jones, John Kaufmann, Malcolm McClinton, Bernie Mireault, Jim Pavelec, and Michael Vilardi Buy this issue — only $9.95 plus postage and handling! FICTION “The Beautiful Corridor” By Jonathan L. Howard Kyth had penetrated every chamber of the ancient and deadly tomb……
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