Here’s our review of Ramsey Campbell’s creepy horror, The Wise Friend. By Sarah Lines 05-06-20 32 Author: Ramsey Campbell Publisher: Flame Tree Press Released: Out now Price: £20 Ever thought you saw a shadow move out of the corner of your eye when you were alone? Even if you’re not prone to getting spooked, reading
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We review No Signal, the sequel to Jem Tugwell’s Proximity and the latest in the iMe series. By Burt Peterson 04-06-20 1,979 Author: Jem Tugwell Publisher: Serpentine Books Released: Out now Price: £8.99 It has been a year since the events of Jem Tugwell’s first book in the iMe series, Proximity, and for Detective Inspector
Move over Buffy, the housewives are on the case. Here’s our review of Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires. By Sarah Lines 03-06-20 147 Author: Grady Hendrix Publisher: Quirk Books Released: Out now Price: £9.99 When you hear “vampire slayer”, you probably think of a certain blonde teenager. But what the
Can you tell us a bit about your upcoming book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires? Growing up, I hated my mum’s book club; I thought they were just a bunch of silly housewives, but when I got to know them as adults I realised I was the idiot. These women had dealt
Ray Harryhausen created many iconic creatures, but which one is the world’s favourite? Well not only are we all about to find out but we can also put our two cents in by voting for our personal favourite! A month ahead of what would have been Ray Harryhausen’s 100th birthday, The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation
Mary Robinette Kowal continues her Hugo and Nebula award-winning Lady Astronaut series, following The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon, and we’re proud to reveal the wonderful cover and include an excerpt from the first chapter of the novel. In The Relentless Moon the Earth is coming to the boiling point
The full programme for the science fiction, fantasy and horror writing festival will be available online. By Rachael Harper 26-05-20 2,480 We have great news for those wondering what Cymera, Scotland’s festival of science fiction, fantasy and horror writing, is doing this year amid the ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic: it’s going digital! The festival
We review the latest novel in Ben Aaronovitch’s successful Rivers Of London series. By Burt Peterson 19-05-20 2,505 Author: Ben Aaronovitch Publisher: Gollancz Price: £18.99 Wonderfully blending technology and magic, Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers Of London series focuses on the adventures of Peter Grant – a Met police officer who works in a very special department:
Those lovely people at The Folio Society have released another beautiful edition of a classic sci-fi novel with its take on Arthur C Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama. And we are delighted to be able to share with you some images from the book… For those unfamiliar with Rendezvous With Rama, here is a synopsis: Rama is a vast
No Signal is the second book in the iMe technothriller series, and is set a year after Proximity (book 1) introduced the world of iMe, where crime is eradicated by complete control and people are kept in optimal health through embedded technology. No Signal asks: ‘Can a game change the world?’ The game is central
We are delighted to be able to share with you lovely SciFiNow readers a snippet of Adrian J Walker’s The Human Son. But first, here is a synopsis of the book: The Earth was dying, and only the erta could save it. Created to be genetically superior, hyper-intelligent and unburdened by the full range of
Can you tell us more about your upcoming novel, Chosen Ones? Chosen Ones is about a group of people who saved the world when they were teenagers. They took down the ‘Dark One’, a being of great evil who wreaked havoc across North America. Now, ten years later, they’re the most famous people ever to have
We love a bit of YA dystopian fiction here at SciFiNow – strong female lead, a seemingly all-powerful bad guy, a big battle, perhaps a love interest… now, imagine if an author of one of the most successful YA dystopian fiction series in recent years wrote a novel about what happens after these kids save
In a post-apocalyptic future, Adrian J Walker’s, The Human Son, takes an unflinching look at humanity. By Burt Peterson 30-04-20 101 Author: Adrian J Walker Publisher: Solaris Released: Out now (in paperback in September) Price: £8.99 The premise is familiar to fans of SciFiNow: The Earth is broken due to a multitude of factors, and
One of the things people warned me about when it comes to writing novels is that no matter how smoothly novel N goes, there’s no guarantee that novel N+1 will also go smoothly. I learned this the hard way in writing Phoenix Extravagant. I thought I had the plot all planned out, and I knew
SciFiNow exclusively reveals the paperback cover for David Koepp’s Cold Storage. By Rachael Harper 27-04-20 3,370 We are delighted to exclusively reveal the paperback cover for Cold Storage by the brilliant David Koepp. Check out the illuminating cover for yourself! Cold Storage is the highly-anticipated debut from acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter, David Koepp who is best known
The Folio Society will be releasing the second title in the best-selling A Song Of Ice And Fire saga with A Clash Of Kings. This wonderful title will be a proud addition to anyone’s book collection, with eye-catching illustrations in each book, all housed in a bold, beautiful slipcase that will look stunning on anyone’s
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford caused much excitement and expletives when published last year – being hailed as “Alias meets X-Men in a grimly LA setting” by Maria Lewis, a “madcap adventure” that speeds along at “breakneck pace” by the Guardian and “furious, frenetic, fun, and ‘f*ck you’’ by Robert Brockway.
The Folio Society has released a stunning edition of A Clash of Kings – the second title in its best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire saga, with artist Jonathan Burton continuing his wonderful illustrations. The story explodes off the page, starting just where A Game of Thrones left off: the King is dead and Westeros has been thrown into
First published in 1963, Planet Of The Apes spawned a global media franchise including several television remakes and an Oscar®-nominated film. This stunning new edition from The Folio Society returns Pierre Boulle’s story to its literary roots with the definitive translation by Xan Fielding. Set on the idyllic-looking planet of Soros, the story follows three astronauts who
We are delighted to exclusively reveal the cover for Luke Arnold’s upcoming novel, Dead Man In A Ditch, designed by Emily Courdelle… By Rachael Harper 09-03-20 1,099 Fetch Philips has nothing left to believe in. Which is why he’s surprised when the people of Sunder City start to believe in him… Rumour has it that
DOCILE author KM Szpara hits us up with his top five Nineties pop songs as science fiction and fantasy anthems because why the hell not… By KM Szpara 05-03-20 950 The two things I have loved longest in my life are Hanson and Harry Potter. The pop trio made their mainstream debut in 1997 and
When an author rejects the label of science fiction and fantasy being applied to their works, it’s usually due to disdain for the genre. For me, it was because I never believed my books deserved it. It seemed to me a matter of credentials. My books are predominantly contemporary young adult (YA) fiction. They focus
Can you tell us how you met the Wachowskis and got involved in The Matrix comics? We met at Marvel comics, and worked on a book called Ectokid. Lana was hired to be the writer right at the same time I was hired. The Matrix was still years away at this point, this was mid-Nineties
Let me preface this by saying I’m neither an ethicist nor a moral philosopher. I’m also not a research scientist or technical whiz-kid. I have no particular credentials that should lend any metaphysical weight to the opinions presented here. Think of me as an ethics enthusiast, an amateur futurist, and, above all, a lover of
Even if you’ve never heard the term, I’m prepared to bet you’ve encountered a McGuffin. The screenwriter Angus MacPhail originated the term to refer to any item which drives the plot of a film despite having little importance in itself, a technique he refined in his work with Hitchcock. These days, the term is used
We go back to Deverry with Katherine Kerr’s latest novel Sword Of Fire. By Burt Peterson 20-02-20 545 Author: Katharine Kerr Publisher: Harper Collins Released: Out now Price: £14.99 It’s been a decade since Kathereine Kerr last visited her Celtic fantasy world of Deverry; a land filled with a delightful mix of magic, elves, and
SciFiNow is proud to have an exclusive excerpt of Christopher Paolini’s debut SF novel To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars. To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars is an exciting departure from Paolini’s internationally bestselling fantasy series, which became a global phenomenon. This new book is an adventure on an intergalactic scale, where incredible events have
One of the challenges of writing SFF lies in creating a world that doesn’t seem humdrum and ordinary. Ideally, we could take all-expenses-paid journeys around the world, using teleportation so we don’t have to wait in airport lines. Of course, that’s not possible, but I feel I’ve travelled to many extreme locations through the skill
We speak to Adam Silvera, the New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die At The End, History Is All You Left Me and What If It’s Us about his latest novel and his first foray into fantasy, Infinity Son. Can you tell us more about your new novel, Infinity Son? Infinity Son is about
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