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The Best Creatures in SFFH, Folklore & Myth
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Classic Genre Films: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the
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Meet John Berkeley
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Ask an Expert: July 2025
In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative
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The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
With the TV series of the Wheel of Time completing its third season, I thought now would be a good
Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a
A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
A Harvest of Hearts is set in a fantastical kingdom where magic is fuelled by people’s
Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race
Six Wild Crowns transposes infamous Tudor king Henry VIII and his six wives into a fantasy world
Marginal by Tom Carlisle
In many ways, it’s hard to imagine a world which hadn’t experienced John W.
The Last Song of Penelope By Claire North
This is the last book in North’s ‘Songs of Penelope’ series, telling the