The Fantastic #Fantasticon 2019!
Every year an event celebrating science fiction, fantasy, gaming, technology, cosplay and the enjoyment of life comes up. Fantasticon is a convention drawing equal numbers of…
Want An Original Fantasy? Tap Into An Obsession
Looking for your next big story idea? If you’re experiencing writer’s block, or you just want to come up with something new to write about, one…
The Forge: Fire and Ice, by Fantastic Books Publishing: #BookReview.
236 pages Short Stories/Fantasy/Science Fiction Anthologies Before you read this, you need to know that one of the 27 stories published in this anthology was written…
The Fifth Ascendant, by Joshua Grant: #BookReview.
777 pages Children’s Steampunk/Fantasy and Magic for Children As this is a children’s book, I read it to find out how the author dealt with such…
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin: #BookReview.
304 pages Children’s/Science Fiction and Fantasy It may seem like an odd time of life to be reading children’s literature. In my defence, I bought this…
Game Changers of the Apocalypse, by Mark Kirkbride: #BookReview.
Science Fiction/Post-Apocalyptic Horror 299 pages As far as I can recall, I’ve never read a book in the post-apocalypse genre before, so it’s probable there are…
The Darkness Abides, by L. Harcroft: #BookReview.
Fantasy serial It’s difficult to know whether this book is experimental or just badly written. The sentence structure sometimes seems borrowed from the 19th century and…
A Night Shift, by Joshua Scribner: #BookReview.
This short piece of dark fantasy puts a different spin on a popular theme, and carries it through with some dark humour. It’s a compact story,…
The Majat Testing, by Anna Kashina Reviewed.
This fantasy short introduces readers to a new series, The Majat Code, which, on the basis of the writing here, I may very well explore further.…
The Birth of Death, by Joseph Macolino, Reviewed.
Fantasy for YA readers, this tale of magical creatures failed to grab my attention, though I imagine those interested in the lore of elves, satyrs, centaurs,…
