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The Wells of Sorcery is the trilogy everybody should be talking about. But the trouble with things published in January is that they’re good for buying with Christmas gift cards, but bad for making…
Read story ↗When it comes to fantasy, it has inevitable hangers-on, specific ideas, certain character archetypes that spring to mind. Our imagination fills up with magic, swords, dragons, and, of course, heroes. The monomyth that won't…
Read story ↗Lillian is wasting away in a dead-end job and marinating in her directionless rage when she receives a letter: will she, a person who has no experience with kids or teaching, come be a…
Read story ↗Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series has been brilliant from start to finish, book to book, and she’s so prolific that I’m running out of ways to encourage people to read it. Would threats work?…
Read story ↗Private investigation isn't an easy job, and no one knows this better than Ivy Gamble. When we meet her in Sarah Gailey's Magic for Liars, her investigations mostly involve cheating spouses. She finally catches a break…
Read story ↗The Grand Dark by Richard Kadrey is my first foray into the genre known as Dieselpunk, a style that combines diesel technology, retro-futuristic technology, and the feeling of uncertainty, paranoia, and hopelessness. This novel…
Read story ↗Thanks to all of our wonderful Patreon backers (join now and get a bunch of extra content), we are finally reviewing our very first Garf! And not just any Garf, but the relatively famous…
Read story ↗A story can move you to anger, to cry, to empathize with people you do not know or who are imaginary. A story can inspire you to write your own story. But what happens…
Read story ↗Take a journey back to the 80's with special guest Vince from Transformation Sequence. This week we review Akira, the series that got a lot of people in the west interested in anime in…
Read story ↗You know why you should read Sisters of the Vast Black, the space opera Lina Rather condensed into a novella? Because it's Firefly with nuns. Well, more specifically it's Serenity with nuns, not least…
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