Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands. It’s why Shade Nox, the main character of Sarah J. Daley’s new fantasy novel Obsidian (paperback, Kindle) is the hero of that story…and the center ...CONTINUE
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As irritating as they may be in real life, Nazis are actually interesting when they’re IN SPAAAAACE! Y’know, like in Star Wars. Which brings me to John Birmingham’s The Cruel Stars trilogy, in which Space Nazis who were ...CONTINUE
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When Gaie Sebold released her fantasy novel Babylon Steel in 2011, she probably wasn’t thinking she was ahead of the curve by making her hero an unapologetic sex worker. But a lot can happen in 11 years. Including interest in ...CONTINUE
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Towards the end of the following email interview about his military sci-fi space opera novel The Deep Man (paperback, Kindle), writer Michael Mersault says, “Science fiction should broaden the reader’s view of the world and the ...CONTINUE
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As they are wont to do, Baen Publishing are now systematically rereleasing the four books in Wil McCarthy’s hard sci-fi space opera series The Queendom Of Sol as mass market paperbacks nearly a year-and-a-half after reissuing this out-of-print series ...CONTINUE
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As someone who lives near where the sinkhole opens in the new time travel sci-fi TV show La Brea (as well as where everyone’s on a paleo diet), I’ve been a little on edge lately when it comes to ...CONTINUE
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As a lonely man who lives alone, I am acutely aware of how some people might suspect the worst of me, and do what I can to not arouse their suspicions, lest they find out what I’m really up ...CONTINUE
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It’s October, and that means it’s time to read some scary stories (though, really, when is it not?). But while writer Eric LaRocca says the ones in his short story collection The Strange Thing We Become And Other Dark ...CONTINUE
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People have long speculated how a third World War might start and play out. But in the alt-history military sci-fi short story anthology Weird World War III, we got to see what might happen if things got, well, ...CONTINUE
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