The Avant Champion: Rising

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Explore The Fantastic In Glasgow

Jan 1, 1970

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

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Reissues

Jan 1, 1970

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

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Also Out

Jan 1, 1970

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

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The Collarbound

Jan 1, 1970

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

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The Last Smile In Sunder City

Jan 1, 1970

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

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Also Out

Jan 1, 1970

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

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Editorial

Jan 1, 1970

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

Guardian Weekly

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Books Of The Month

Jan 1, 1970

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

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International Spec-fic Market

Jan 1, 1970

Launched in 2012, Zombies Need Brains LLC is a US small press specialising in speculative fiction anthologies. Founder and editor Joshua Palmatier has recently announced four new anthologies, already fully funded via Kickstarter, with a deadline of 3

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Bright Lights In Canadian Specfic

Jan 1, 1970

The 2022 Aurora Awards, for the best speculative fiction published in Canada have been announced as: Best Novel: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee; Best YA Novel: Walking in Two Worlds, Wab Kinew; Best Novelette/Novella: The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee M

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Global Genre Fiction Market

Jan 1, 1970

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

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Global Specfic Market

Jan 1, 1970

Three Crows Magazine is a quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine that includes short stories, book, film, and video game reviews, as well as interviews with writers and editors of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Editor-in-chief Alex Khlo

The Writer

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But What If?

Jan 1, 1970

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

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International zine Scene

Jan 1, 1970

The Common Tongue magazine publishes dark fantasy and speculative fiction online, plus fantasy anthologies. They like a multicultural mix of work and welcome subs from authors anywhere, but are particularly keen on ‘writers whose voices give better u

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Black Beth: Vengeance Be Thy Name

Jan 1, 1970

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

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International zine Scene

Jan 1, 1970

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

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Reach New Readers Through Portal

Jan 1, 1970

Portal Books are launching a new imprint devoted to fantasy and science fiction. While all subgenres of speculative fiction will be considered, the editorial team of Taran Matharu (author of the multi-million selling Summoner series), Michael Miller

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A Matter Of Speculation

Jan 1, 1970

First things first – what is speculative fiction? The term ‘speculative fiction’ can be a confusing one, and it can be difficult to define. Broadly, speculative fiction can refer to all forms of genre fiction – science fiction, fantasy, horror etc –

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Fact Attack!

Jan 1, 1970

Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

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Global Audio Fiction Market

Jan 1, 1970

Cast of Wonders is a podcast producing young adult speculative short fiction. Each week it presents short stories in the genres of ‘hard science fiction… urban fantasy, horror, steampunk, superheroes and more.’ The team want stories with ‘deep emotio