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…just sleeping. Back on Tuesday, with a book review for #SmallPressBigStories. I’ll let you know some of what I’ve been up to after that. Meanwhile, do go watch The Peripheral on Prime. It’s rather fun.

Play the music! Light the lights! Damaged Intelligence, the sixth – sixth! – installment of the very Traveler RPG-inflected and extremely pulpy space opera Empire Dance series, has gone live and is out there in the world! In case you had forgotten, the cover looks very much like this: And what’s in it, I hear … Continue reading Damaged Intelligence – out now!

Cover reveal time! The sixth installment of the Empire Dance series is sat on the launch pads, nose pointed at the stars, ready to go – and yes, there will be pre-order links soon! But first… That’s CAS Special Agent Kit Nagoya there, diving through clouds of shattered glass as ne pursues nir target, the … Continue reading ED6: Damaged Intelligence – COVER REVEAL!

That last post concerning the winding up of the David Gemmell Legend Awards was something of a downer. But earlier this week NewCon Press announced the table of contents for the third – and now final – Legends Anthology, packed full of stories in tribute to the late great master of modern fantasy fiction, David … Continue reading Legends Anthology – Pelicos the Brave Swings into Action!

Everything ends. Over the last decade, the David Gemmell Awards For Fantasy have honoured the best in fantasy fiction and artwork as chosen by the readers. With a roll of honour taking in current genre luminaries such as John Gwynne, Robin Hobb, Mark Lawrence, Peter Newman, Brandon Sanderson, Andrezj Sapkowski, Brent Weeks and many more, … Continue reading On the Gemmell Awards

Everybody else is doing it, so I figured I ought to jump in too. Why not? A touch of positivity is always welcome at this time of year. Alas, my TBR pile resembles the Arts Tower of Sheffield University right now, and it’s absolutely impossible to catch up with everything that was released this year … Continue reading Books Wot I Have Read: 2018

[AKA: I’m Still Alive!] This year has just flown by, hasn’t it? Almost like it knows it needs to bugger off with the bad news and right-wing tosspots it brought in. Bad enough we’ve had to flea-bomb the whole house this week, without 2018 dragging more shit in through the back door. Yeah, go on, … Continue reading Chopper on Tour, 2019 Edition

Jack Teng? Who he? Long story short, he’s the author of a new and rather spiffy SF novel from Grimbold Books. You can find him on the twitters at @MyBossIsADroid, and over here at his own site, or on the wild streets of Vancouver chasing down replicants and answering only to the name K. Possibly. … Continue reading Promise of a Battered Moon – the Jack Teng Interview!

It’s here! Booknest.eu’s supermassive anthology of war-themed fantasy fiction short stories, produced to benefit Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is OUT NOW as an ebook and a paperback. What do you get? Stories from Ed Greenwood, Anna Smith-Spark, Anna Stephens, Dyrk Ashton, Laura M Hughes, some bloke called Steven Poore, I have literally no … Continue reading Art of War Anthology: Out Now!