News: 2017 David Gemmell Awards winners
The 2017 David Gemmell Awards winners have been announced: The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel Warbeast, Gav Thorpe (Black Library) The Morningstar Award…
Interview with Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of the Hell Divers series
We have talked to Nicholas Sansbury Smith as his second book in the Hell Divers series, Ghosts is about to be published. First of…
The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
In crime novels one of the most common scenarios of the ‘whodunnit’ is ‘the locked-room mystery’ – that is where a crime (usually…
ALONE by Scott Sigler (Generations Trilogy #3)
In Alone, Scott Sigler brings his powerful and gripping Generations trilogy to a close, a science fiction saga that finds humanity having advanced far…
Guest post: Hiking in Shifting Sands: On loving dunes and Dune by Wendy N Wagner
Frank Herbert’s Dune and I begin in the same place: the central Oregon coast. The sand dunes blanketing the forty-mile stretch between the towns…
Guest post: Manufacturing Myths: How a Crime Writer Used Mythology to Learn How to Write Science-Fiction by Nik Korpon
I never meant to write a science-fiction novel. In the early incarnations of The Rebellion’s Last Traitor—which was called Mount Joy at that point…
THE RELUCTANT QUEEN by Sarah Beth Durst
Spirits are still alive and potentially causing havoc in The Reluctant Queen, the second installment of Sarah Beth Durst’s fantasy saga, The Queens of…
Improbable Botany Kickstarter
A new kickstarter campaign is up and running that readers of this site may find interesting: Improbable Botany, an anthology about alien plant invasions and…
Interview with Snake Eyes author Hillary Monahan
Known for her popular YA horror novels in the Bloody Mary universe, Hillary Monahan is the author of Snake Eyes, the third book in…
The Rebellion’s Last Traitor by Nik Korpon
The idea that whoever wins the war writes the history is cruelly brought to life in The Rebellion’s Last Traitor. With ‘reach off the…
THE WITCHWOOD CROWN (Book One of The Last King of Osten Ard) by Tad Williams
Can you return home? Can a writer fully revisit a world he left nearly twenty-five years ago? If you are Tad Williams and that…
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Lavishly sensual, sexuality breathes throughout the book, with a humming roar of violence lurking in the background, or sometimes just exploding across the page…
Interview with The Glass Arrow author Kristen Simmons
“The Handmaid’s Tale meets Blood Red Road in Glass Arrow, the story of Aya, who lives with a small group of women on the…
News: Locus Award Winners 2017
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced winners in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards. The winners in each category are given in…
Article: The Joy of Futures Past
“Secret pleasures” time…. or perhaps not so much of a secret. Those of you who read the Forums here at SFFWorld may have noticed…
Guest post: Death, Dying and Epic Fantasy By Gail Z. Martin
People die a lot in epic fantasy. Yes, everyone blames GRRM for that, but was a trend long before Game of Thrones. The body…
A Brief Retrospective of Tad Williams’s MEMORY, SORROW and THORN
When Tad Williams published The Dragonbone Chair, the first installment of the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, fantasy was in a transition state, though…
Excerpt from SEEK AND DESTROY by William C. Dietz
We’re pleased to bring you an exclusive excerpt from Seek and Destroy by William C. Dietz being published on June 20th. Seek and Destroy…
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Here’s an old Arthur C Clarke novel I’ve been meaning to re-read for a while. After recently reading the second book in Ian…
Interview with Peter Telep
Peter Telep is the author of more than fifty novels. His collaboration with Tom Clancy, Against All Enemies, debuted at #1 on the New…
Guest post: Climate Fiction is Good for our Genre (and for us!) by Brenda Cooper
I participated in March for Science in Washington D. C. The signs were fabulous. The single topic that marchers depicted the most often was…
News: Black Mirror book series
From the Inbox, news from Penguin Random House: Penguin Random House has announced the acquisition of an original book series inspired by the popular…
THE PREY OF GODS by Nicky Drayden
Nicky Drayden’s debut novel packs a lot of imagination and inventiveness in its comparatively short space – artificial intelligence, gender identity, oppressive government, gods…