He’s been compared to Neil Gaiman but has his own, strangely chummy, way with words and in Queen of the Dark Things C. Robert Cargill takes us on an adventure not just to Australia but to the world of the faerie. Following on from Dreams and Shadows, Queen of the Dark Things is set half […]
Communist angel punk? A review of Wolfhound Century
Peter Higgins’ Wolfhound Century is one of those books that feels like it should start a genre. The geeky thing to do would be add “punk” to the end. What we have a huge world, a huge country and a huge capital city wrapped up in a State knows best communist style empire. Our hero […]
Competition: SF Masterworks collection
The SF Masterworks series is so important it has its own Wikipedia page. Back in 1999 Millennium started to pick the very best of sci-fi from the 1950s for reprint. It’s now run by Victor Gollancz and continues on its mission. The original list was described as amazing by Ian M Banks. In this competition […]
Cakebread & Walton score Winter of the World RPG
British publishers Cakebread & Walton are known for games like Clockwork & Chivalry, Abney Park’s Airship Pirates, Pirates & Dragons and the OneDice series. They’ve just scored the license to take Michael Scott Rohan’s ebook series and create a two core gamebook RPG. Rohan’s 6-part fantasy series is published by Gollancz’s SF Gateway imprint and […]
Stories from ghosts: A review of The House of War and Witness
The House of War and Witness from Gollancz is written by a trilogy; Linda Carey, Louise Carey and M.R. Carey. It’s a historic ghost story of sorts. There are two types of ghost stories; horrors and those with a twist. The House of War and Witness is in the latter camp. That’s not to say […]
Dark adult themes for A Land Fit For Heroes game-book app
The indie developer behind the Narborion Saga, Liber Primus Games, has teamed up Gollancz to transform Richard Morgan’s bestselling A Land Fit For Heroes trilogy into a game-book app. The app will be available for a range of platforms; from Apple’s App Store for the iPhone, iPad and even iPod Touch, via Amazon for the […]
Google it: A review of the Book of the New Sun – Shadow and Claw
This offering from Gollancz’ Fantasy Masterwork series has the first two volumes of Gene Wolf’s (four-volume) The Book of the New Sun with The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator. It’s a book that belongs in the Masterwork series, winning a host of rewards and respect over the years. For me; […]
An exclusive extract from the Robot Overlords filming diaries
Robot Overlords is an independent British film due out this March and staring Gillian Anderson, Ben Kingsley and Callan McAuliffe. The movie follows a group of teenagers coping with the wake of a robot invasion of Earth. Mankind has been confined to their homes and no one knows what the robots want. Two things are […]
Should you embrace Darkness? A review of The Knight
The Knight is written by the giant of French fantasy Pierre Pevel, translated by Tom Clegg and brought to the UK by Gollancz. I wouldn’t call The Knight a sequel. The book is described as “A tale from the High Kingdom” and there have been other High Kingdom books. I’ve not read any of them […]
Gollancz signs Moorcock for The Whispering Swarm
Michael Moorcock’s The Whispering Swarm is coming to the UK Via the Orion Publishing imprint Gollancz. The Times named Moorcock was one of the best English writers since 1945 and he’s been compared to the likes of Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Tolkien and even Charles Dickens. This is his first independent book in nearly 10 years. […]
