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Swords Against!
yesterday
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
Bridges of Smoke (Achilles Protocol, #1)
The Year We Lived
R/evolution
La sorcellerie est un sport de combat
Poppy Jenkins
The Two Moons
Non-Player Character
Hard Rhythm
Manhunt
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 2)
Requiem for Immortals
Enfants de Mars et de Vénus
What are readers recommending?
The World Turned Upside Down
Recommended by
Ree
Classic scifi short stories. Even if you're familiar with the tales, it's worth reading the many forewords and afterwords the editors provide, where they examine their own relationships to these stories. (My personal fave: "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore.)
This book is available on several Baen CDs and downloadable free and legally from various sites.
Interzone #297
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue of Interzone, with interesting stories by Paul E. Franz, James Sallis and Cécile Cristofari.
Full review at [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/magazines/Interzone/20240120-Interzone297.html ].
Any Other Name
Recommended by
sakina
Like All Is Fair, this was a busy novel that I was sorry to finish. Can't fault it on length, plenty to read, and the story is lots of fun, crammed with action.
The Thief's Gamble
Recommended by
kevin
I was intrigued by the promise of a living fantasy world, instead of the usual "I was there three thousand years ago, Gandalf. And look, we're still using swords!"
A world where characters have lives, likes and concerns. Where technologies and discoveries change over time. This is epic fantasy that covers the passage of time in a meaningful way.
A fantastic series.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 197
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A good issue of Clarkesworld, with fascinating stories by Samantha Murray, Eric Schwitzgebel, R. P. Sand and Gu Shi.
Full review at [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/magazines/Clarkesworld/20230209-Clarkesworld197.html ]
The Fisherman
Recommended by
kevin
Yes, The Fisherman is a little Lovecraftian, with its ancient gods, cultists, and watery... things. But it has much more going for it. The Fisherman is a work of beauty that Lovecraft never came close to.
You grieve with Abe as he tries to pick up the pieces. You worry about what Dan will do... and when he'll break. You wonder which story you are actually reading and who is telling it.
Fermi's Progress: Planet of the Apiaries
Recommended by
kevin
The Fermi crew is a mess, but in Planet of the Apiaries, they're starting to come together. Starting to discover their roles, and what each of them means to the others... even if they can't remember them all.
The sci-fi references come thick and fast, but are never exclusionary. This fantastic third instalment ups the ante and drops a bombshell in its final line!
Must read sci-fi!
Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2019
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An interesting set of stories in the issue, with the ones by Michael Libling, Matthew Hughes, Gregor Hartmann and Marie Vibbert.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 207
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue, with interesting stories by Fiona Moore, Ng Yi-Sheng and Fu Qiang.
Full review at my website [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/magazines/Clarkesworld/20231206-Clarkesworld207.html ].
The Devil's Trill
Recommended by
sakina
Fun, light read, crazy and innovative, plenty of intrigue and weirdness. Takes a sudden left turn towards the end of the first chapter and never looks back.
The Hellsblood Bride
Recommended by
kevin
There's weird fiction, then there's Chuck Wendig weird fiction.
In this sequel to The Blue Blazes, our gangland enforcer with a heart of gold, Mookie Pearl, must save his daughter and the whole world from the schemes of demons, demi-gods and more weird stuff before it all ends.
Call it a Chuckpocalypse, or even Wendigeddon!
Loads of fun and a must read for any Chuck Wendig fan.
The Witches of Greasy Creek
Recommended by
kevin
What a fantastic book!
A brilliant story and introduction to Appalachian communities.
Kate is an unlikely, but enthusiastic protagonist who has had enough of being messed about, and is out to learn from her grandmother, a witch.
Lots of fun, really tense and exciting. Another occult thriller with heart that you just won't want to put down!
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.
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ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is open!
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