A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was a surreal experience for someone who saw the TV show first. Because here, the text and the show dramatically part ways, and become in many respects entirely different stories. There’s a whole lot of stuff going on with […]
Read More Book Review: A Feast of Crows by George R. R. MartinThe First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club and the SF Masterworks Reading List. This classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells has not seemed to have aged well. Of course we have been to the moon, and found no […]
Read More Book Review: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. WellsI found this lovely video of Gunsmoke & Dragonfire author Carrie Gessner sharing three things that she thinks are great about fantasy. I agree! Check it out! We’re in the home stretch of our Kickstarter, but there’s still time to lend your support! Check out our great rewards! For the last week, we’re offering HANDBOUND […]
Read More Three Great Things About FantasyA Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 12 in 12 Reading Challenge and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. This novel won the 1999 Locus and was nominated for the 1999 Nebula. In this second book of A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin continues […]
Read More Book Review: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. MartinThe Return of “Autumn” James Gibbons by William DeGeest My rating: 4 of 5 stars This novelette happened across my path as a submission for an anthology I am putting together on fantasy westerns. I didn’t accept it to the anthology, but that’s because I lacked the space, not because I didn’t like it! This […]
Read More Book Review: The Return of “Autumn” James Gibbons by William DeGeestA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 12 in 12 Reading Challenge. This novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for the 1997 Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. I’ve been meaning to read these for some time because I’m a fan of the […]
Read More Book Review: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinBy Brooke Jarvis Sune Boye Riis was on a bike ride with his youngest son, enjoying the sun slanting over the fields and woodlands near their home north of Copenhagen, when it suddenly occurred to him that something about the experience was amiss. Specifically, something was missing. It was summer. He was out in the country, moving […]
Read More The Insect Apocalypse is HereRecently, The Toronto Star published an article stating that after the Canadian Writers Union conducted a survey, Canadian writers make an average of $9,380 CAD per year. There are many problems with this survey, the primary one being that this is strictly a survey of the Canadian Writers Union, and I would hazard a guess […]
Read More Why Canadian Writers Make Less Money (My Thoughts)By Arkady Martine Right now, the largest and most deadly wildfire in California history is burning. Last year, Hurricane Harvey drowned southeast Texas under punishing, endless rain; a month ago, Hurricane Florence did the same to North Carolina. Apocalyptic-scale disasters happen every day (and more often now, as climate change intensifies weather patterns all over […]
Read More What Really Happens After the ApocalypseBy Kate Elliot The cold equations of “realism,” some claim, suggest there is little scope for women taking an active and interesting role in epic stories set in fantasy worlds based in a pre-modern era. Women’s lives in the past were limited, constrained, and passive, they say. To include multiple female characters in dynamic roles […]
Read More Writing Women Characters into Epic Fantasy without Quotas
