The Millions

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1. Imagine organizing a small get-together, a few friends and acquaintances at a neighborhood bar. It’s all very low-key. The day comes; friends arrive. You order cocktails. You chit-chat. In walks the President of the United States, with secret serv

SFX

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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

The Millions

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Debut novelist Kimi Eisele's list of her favorite world-ending art, including works by Hieronymus Bosch, the United Nations, and Dr. Seuss. The post Thirteen Ways Inside My Apocalyptic Heart appeared first on The Millions.

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics/Black Label Writer/artist: Daniel Warren Johnson ISSUES 1-4 Optimism has always been a vital element of Wonder Woman’s character – right from her creation, she’s been forever looking to find the best in humanity,

Oxygen

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If premium cable is any indication of things to come, it’s only a matter of time until a quickly mutating virus turns us all to zombies, a wave of fires blazes across the country, or an alien species invades the planet and forces us to lick their spa

The Advocate

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Isaac Fellman, author of The Two Doctors Górski and, under his pretransition first name, The Breath of the Sun, won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for the latter. An archivist at a queer historical societ

SFX

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RELEASED 21 JANUARY 496 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Derek Miller Publisher Jo Fletcher Books Post-apocalypse stories often focus just on the nitty-gritty of how to survive when the world ends, but there’s a more challenging question: what happens w

Literary Hub

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Sit down and have a cup of something to soothe yourself. Then try one or all or any of these books which I highly recommend for respite in a time of pandemic—riveting stories of societal collapse, plagues, near-death experiences, distant futures on b

SFX

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Neal Shusterman’s latest, GAME CHANGER (out now, Walker) centres on a teenage American football player, who’s… oh right, you’ve lost interest before I mention how he bounces into parallel worlds, right? Fair enough. Hannah Mathewson’s debut WITHERWAR

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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

Los Angeles Times

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We should have been much better prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm not talking about on a federal or local level - although President Donald Trump's firing of the pandemic experts and ignoring the medical community during early weeks, not to men

SFX

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⏵ RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ⏵ Author Kate Sawyer ⏵ Publisher Coronet ➔ Post-apocalyptic novels may not have quite the shine they used to after the last couple of years, but Kate Sawyer’s debut is an assured and intriguing

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

Writer's Digest

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“What kind of writer do you want to be?” That question was asked of me when I was 13. I’d been dragged along to a party at a penthouse in New York City. It was 1971 and the person asking the question was the legendary writer Richard Matheson, author

Guernica Magazine

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The writer dubbed the “Weird Thoreau” on ecological fiction and the cult of climate-change denial.

Literary Hub

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I can chart the progress of my life through the types of apocalypse I have feared. As a child, the endings I imagined were natural, even cosmic: the land swallowed by the sea, the sun swallowing the earth. When I was an adolescent the man-made came t

SFX

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RELEASED 9 JUNE 400 pages | Hardback/ebook Author David Koepp Publisher HQ Hello and welcome to (cue Skeeter Davis wailing, “Don’t they know it’s the end of the world…?” and a gaudy logo:) “APOCALYPSE OF THE MONTH!” Strangely, for a book that feature

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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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

Literary Hub

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What effect can geography and history have on a work of fiction? In his introduction to the American edition of his novel The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers describes the process of researching his novel. He’d left London for life closer to where he’d

SFX

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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

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

Global Voices

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Two researchers — who admit "their methodology probably isn't perfect" — suggest island nations are the best places to be in an apocalypse. But will the Global South be welcoming?

Literary Hub

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We human beings are meaning-hungry creatures. This is especially true when it comes to encounters with death or other severe forms of trauma. No wonder that, in the case of both nuclear and climate threats, many turn to ideas and narratives associate

The Millions

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Famous Men isn’t quite a sci-fi novel, but something more like its inverse—a book less concerned with alternate universes than their absence. The post Parallel Lives Lost: K Chess’s ‘Famous Men Who Never Lived’ appeared first on The Millions.

New Zealand Listener

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Based on this and his past features, it seems American film-maker David Lowery is on a quest to make movies that confound expectations in any and every genre. In recent years, he has done that with the equally terrific New Zealand-made kids’ flick Pe

The Atlantic

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These films aren’t all bleak—or obviously about an apocalypse. But each has timeless insights into how humans respond in times of crisis.

Literary Hub

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It was summer, and most of Australia was on fire. Seasonal bushfires have always been part of Australian life, but never like those that rang in 2020. Fire fronts met in regions so remote humans rarely visited, and roared towards cities, so hot they

SFX

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WE’VE SEEN a lot of extreme scenarios in the Walking Dead universe, but at the end of Fear The Walking Dead’s sixth season, they raised the bar by detonating nuclear bombs. They doubled down on the post-apocalyptic peril, irradiating the landscape an

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