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Swords Against!
8 September
Swords Against! Magazine is a new sword & sorcery fiction periodical packed with heart-pounding stories accented by great art.
The magazine explores the boundaries between the old and new, challenges …
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Hugh Howey
7 September
Hugh C. Howey is an American writer, and the author of the books Wool, Shift, and Dust, which the science fiction series Silo from Apple TV is based …
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Alan Baxter
2 September
Alan Baxter is a multi-award-winning British-Australian author of more than twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, encompassing horror, weird fiction, dark fantasy, crime and more.
This Is …
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Sheer Spite Press
1 September
Sheer Spite Press was founded by Lee Arden in 2024 in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal to publish and distribute useful, generous, personal, political, funny, heart-filled works.
Lee has been making zines …
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Word Horde
11 August
Word Horde was founded by Ross E. Lockhart on the the idea that great stories should be given every opportunity to find the right audience.
When you work with the most talented …
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InverteFest
5 August
InverteFest is a periodic online event to celebrate overlooked invertebrate fauna and shre the joys of discovery.
Artists can submit their invertebrate art to be included in the regularly released …
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Tomkin Press
17 July
The home of Shawn Tomkin, the creator and publisher of the ENNIE-winning Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game.
Now also the home of Ironsworn: Delve, and Ironsworn: Starforged, and Sundered Isles. …
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M. Darusha Wehm
9 July
M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author.
Darusha is the author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as over …
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Speculative Insight Collections
9 July
Speculative Insight is a feminist journal, although not every essay will be explicitly feminist in analysis.
They are anti racism, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism. Speculative Insight welcomes essays that present …
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Prairie Dragon Press
9 July
Prairie Dragon Press is a small press TTRPG publisher based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Helmed by Brent Jans (he/they), The Hearth Magazine is the imprint’s first major publication, but hopefully …
Favourite Books
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Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror
Recommended by
kevin
A fantastic collection of gut-wrenching tales.
The imagery will stay with you, as will the depth to which Shane Hawk is willing and able to explore his indigenous Cheyenne and Arapaho heritage. Crafting tales that provide a refreshing point-of-view and unique imagery that get into your brain and writhe behind your eyes.
Can't wait to read a longer work by the author. Need more!
Ruinous Attraction
Recommended by
zicon
Perfectly paced smut with people who feel real enough to touch.
INTERZONE #283 (SEP-OCT 2019)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue, with interesting stories by Fiona Moore, David Cleden and Dustin Blair Steinacker.
Fermi's Progress 1: Dyson's Fear
Recommended by
kevin
This book got me hooked!
It delivers hard science fiction, pathos, beautifully dark comedy, a dig at every lazy sci-fi trope in existence, plenty of laughs, and is simply a must-read.
You know what you're getting into from the clever book titles. The humour is Jonathan Swift meets Red Dwarf. And the science is terrifyingly accurate...
...unfortunately!
B-Mecha
Recommended by
kevin
This isn't your propaganda-and-trope filled flag-waver. B-Mecha is fully aware of its place in Mech vs. Kaiju lore, and up-ends it in glorious West Yorkshire fashion.
We're given a concise yet comprehensive view of the lay-of-the-land, and the personal toll when Michael receives very little thanks for the dangerous work he does.
Love it!
Dymchishyna
Recommended by
gwer232
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The Year We Lived
Recommended by
kevin
Virginia teases the twist right from the off. But The Year We Lived is so finely written and enchanting that you lose yourself in the world and simply enjoy it, forgetting about this possible twist.
You'll quickly relax and let the sun-dappled fens, the reeds, woods, the description of the Hall and its inhabitants wash over you and pull you like a slow current into its 11th Century setting.
The Steerswoman
Recommended by
kevin
An amazing fantasy tale that slowly unfolds to reveal a surprising twist.
At first, all seems familiar. You recognise the world of wizards and the ranger-like steerswomen. But, just like the steerswomen themselves, the more you learn, the more sense you begin to make of this world. Something isn't quite right.
Rosemary Kirstein has me hooked! I've already started the next book in the series.
Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2020
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue that starts with an unusual tour through a library by David Gerrold with other interesting tales by Marc Laidlaw and Angie Peng, a fun piece by Brian Trent featuring some Greek Gods and a dog and a long fairy-tale like story by Leah Cypess that shows that fairies may not have the best interests of the people at heart when they give blessings.
The Town
Recommended by
kevin
The Town is a fucking rollercoaster of a ride.
This Australian horror is written in a kind of jarring prose. The story is brilliant, terrifying, and utterly refuses to share its secrets with you.
On finishing this book, I promise that the first words out of your mouth will be "WHAT THE FUCK!".
Reminds me of books by China Miéville, John Langan, and Michael Marshall Smith.
Get it now!
Arachne
Recommended by
kevin
Arachne is an unique entry in the cyberpunk genre. It steps between the dystopia of William Gibson and the otherworldliness of Phillip K. Dick.
Full of 'almost' body-horror, corporations so mega that they transact court cases in nanoseconds, and AI characters with more spiritualism in their circuits than the humans that inhabit this post Big-One San Francisco.
A must-read for cyberpunk fans!
Coeur d'Alene Waters
Recommended by
kevin
Filled with flawed characters, a corrupt police force, bought and manipulated by a wealthy local family; it's a rich background to the main tale of redemption, coming to terms and moving on.
Slow in parts, it is however, a worthwhile read in itself, serving as an insight into the mining communities of the region and their demise as a local industry and employer.
Download your Black Library ebooks before 31st of August
In February 2026, Games Workshop announced that The Black Library ebook and audiobook shop would be taking a “...well-earned rest from the 31st of August”.
Amazon's latest anti-reader change
Amazon’s latest change to their older Kindle devices would be perfectly acceptable, if it wasn’t for the fact that it comes after a long chain of anti-consumer and anti-reader practices.
Collections have launched!
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New DRM-free Bookshops of 2026
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ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is open!
ShortBox Comics Fair, the innovative digital comics fair showcasing all-new, original comics from artists around the globe, is hitting its fifth year!