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RELEASED OUT NOW! 344 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Steve Feasey Publisher Bloomsbury A magic sword, an abandoned baby of mysterious origins, and a malevolent sorcerer looking to plunge the world into chaos… Dark Blade ticks off a lot of epic fantas

You South Africa

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1 What colour is an emerald? 2 In which Italian city do you find this tower that’s famous because it leans over? 3 What’s the name of the witchcraft and wizardry school in the Harry Potter books and movies? 4 This is the flag of which of South

Love Crochet

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www.lucyravenscar.blogspot.com Lucy Collin is the designer behind the recently published Harry Potter Crochet book and kit (Thunder Bay Press) – the kit includes a hook shaped like a wand, which we think is the perfect finishing touch. Crocheting cre

Writer's Digest

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David Burns says the reason why fantasy is such an old but thriving literary genre is that fantasy stories speak to emotional truths. “A good fantasy story is going to make you feel something and resonate about subjects such as love, family and the n

TV Guide Magazine

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PREMIERES November, Prime Video GAME OF THRONES fans, prepare to trade GoT for WoT as The Wheel of Time—late author Robert Jordan’s 14-book fantasy epic—hits the screen. If you haven’t read even the first title, 1990’s The Eye of the World, here are

SFX

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

SFX

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Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

Writing Magazine

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The University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies has launched the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. The new venture’s inaugural event was a free Zoom lecture on 16 September by fantasy author Ellen Kushner, followed by a discussion panel on f

Popshot Magazine

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ISSUE 25 — FANTASY AUTUMN 2019 There are no limits on fantasy. Yet, in literature it is so heavily steeped in genre it’s impossible not to think of warring kingdoms, dragons, unicorns, witches and other supernatural tropes. Fantasy with a capital F i

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Miles Cameron switches from fantasy to space opera for ARTIFACT SPACE (out now, Gollancz), which centres on a vast merchant vessel. When on-the-run orphan Marca poses as a midshipman on the Greatship Athens, she gets caught up in a plot to destroy th

SFX

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RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

Writing Magazine

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Verily is a US web journal for women. The editorial team ‘sifts through the noise of the world to elevate what is honest, real, and beautiful for the modern woman’. Columns requiring subs are Travel with a Local about the ‘hidden gems’ in your neighb

Total Girl

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TG WILL ANSWER ALL YOUR BIG QUESTIONS! Q If you could go to any fictional world, where would you go? - TG reader Jess The Wizarding World! I’d love to experience the REAL magic of Diagon Alley, and eat a big feast at Hogwarts Castle. YUM! – TG’s R

PC Gamer

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Never thought I’d say it, but it’s lovely to play as a goblin. Too much time wasted in the Warhammer fantasy world means I go in expecting to be a jittering, capering villain, only interested in sticking people with sharp things. But Master of Shado

SFX

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MEET THE COMPLIANCE MANAGER BEHIND YA FANTASY NOVEL KINGDOM OF SOULS Tell us about your protagonist. Arrah hails from a powerful family of witchdoctors, but doesn’t have magic of her own. When the Demon King threatens her kingdom, she must trade year

The Writer

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All fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if” question, which serves as the premise and drives the plot. But for fantasy author Kij Johnson, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award, the specific genre of speculative fiction adds its

Writing Magazine

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Kopfkino Media is a brand new US ‘boutique publisher specializing in dark genre fiction’. The editors love horror. Their first project is an anthology, Midnight in the Dying Garden: Fairy Tales for the End of the World, a combination project consisti

Writing Magazine

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Edited by Roban Bandojo, Pressfuls is a digital magazine which each issue publishes eight short stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror and crime/mystery. Issues are published each January, May and September, but the title is always

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RELEASED 9 JUNE Publisher Rebellion Writers Unknown, Alec Worley Artists Blas Gallego, DaNi, Andrea Bulgarelli The original Black Beth story is a real anomaly: a swords and sorcery adventure published 12 years after it was completed, in British horro

Foxtel Magazine

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“Let’s GO. You already know I’m ready to watch the important journey [of Zendaya’s Rue in season two of Euphoria].” [Somebody Somewhere] is the best new series – amazing. Beth Ann, via Facebook Praise be to God, the Gemstones have returned [in season

ImagineFX

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Author Dian Hanson Publisher Taschen Price £150 Web www.taschen.com Available Now Taschen’s Masterpieces of Fantasy Art showcases imaginative art primarily from the 20th century, in a mammoth, highly produced hardback. Yet this mouth-watering prospec

You South Africa

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This fantasy series, based on the books by Lev Grossman, can best be described as “Harry Potter for adults”. It’s centred on a group of university students who attend a secret school of magic, Brakebills College of Magical Pedagogy, in New York. The

Chat

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WIN £1,000 Puzzle 10 In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, what’s the name of Death’s manservant? Follow the arrows and write in your answers. Then read down the letters in the shaded squares to find the prize puzzle answer. Your answer: ■

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rebecca Zahabi Publisher Gollancz This is Rebecca Zahabi’s first adult novel after 2020’s YA hit The Game Weavers. The Collarbound has a whiff of YA about it still: young Isha arrives at m

Writing Magazine

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FableCroft Publishing is an Australian independent press of speculative fiction. The editorial team has been ‘so tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story.

Literary Hub

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It is entirely possible that I have never had an accurate sense of what is called realism in that I do not, as a reader, discriminate between it and fantasy. My earliest reading was Greek mythology. As with my prayers, nothing was ever deleted, but

Writing Magazine

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Established in December 2021, Bag of Bones Press aims to ‘champion and publish budding writers of horror and dark fiction who may not have had a traditional or formal education in the literary arts’. Submission calls are open to anyone and everyone T

Guardian Weekly

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By Alastair Reynolds Reynolds is best known as an author of hard science-based space operas, yet his latest novel begins on board a ship sailing up the coastline of Norway in the early 19th century. The mystery deepens as the same group of people, on

Simply Knitting

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Choose from draft excluder, tea cosy, scarf, backpack, socks and mittens! All the kits in the new Harry Potter range from www.herocollector.com come with everything you need to make special Hogwarts’ memorabilia! Do you know someone who’d love a HP k

SFX

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As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no