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The War of the Awards… and More!
A Cold Season for Artisan Authors
The Age of Agents and a Few Good Geeks
Choose Your Own (Erotic) Adventure!
Different Kingdoms of Faith in Fiction
Understanding Progressive SF
The Future of Fiction is… Interactive?
Fantastical Fiction and the Folio Prize
Smoke on the Water Stories, Squared
I Steelheart the Best British SF
Mostly an Ode to Iain Banks
Marking the Clarkes
Streaming Stories and More
The Morning After World Book Night
DRM, The Book of Bloggers and A Thanks from Iain Banks
Fifty Shades Saves the Day as the Clarkes Go Dark
One Hell of a Week
Image is Everything
Are the Genre Wars Won?
The Culture of Money
Beyond the Black Crown
Goodbye, Iain Banks
YA All the Way
The Best British Fantasy and Iain Banks’ Final Novel
Digital Danger and A Magical Sister Act
Unearthing The Book of the Dead
Book Announcement Blowout
Gender Representation and A Very Rowling Reveal
Joe Abercrombie and The Solicitor’s Stone
To Booker or Not to Booker
Daunt Undaunted
Ebook Bestsellers and the Edinburgh Festival
An Assortment of Anthologies, Featuring Secret SF Fan Stieg Larsson
Thomas Covenant and the Snubbing of Self-Publishing
Kearney’s Kingdoms and the Fairytale Unchained
Almanac of Small Shadows
Diversity in SFF
The Booker Rules
The Return of The Returned
We Have A Winner
Let the Con Commence!
A Smörgåsbord of Awards
The Women’s Prize for (Fantastic) Fiction
On the Death of Doris Lessing
Catching Fire: A Children’s Champion
Scotland the Speculative
Oh No! A Brief History of the Chung Kuo
The Week Before Christmas Brings Strange New Things
A Good Year for Genre Fiction in Britain?
How You Ruined the Hugos
The Clarkes Bite Back
Considering The Kitschies
Invisible Women For the Win
Little, Big, Brown
Imagine Shenanigans
Cover Art Extravaganza
The Week That Wossy
British Fiction Friction
Tolkien in Translation
Back to Business
Herbert for Horror
No More Moriarty
Awards Dominate Eastercon
The First Confession of Claire North
The Silver Age of Science Fiction
A Bucket List of Books
Clash of the Titans
Science Fiction Falling
A Festival of Ice and Fire
Strange Chemistry Closes
An Irregular Anthology and An Interactive Festival
Battling the Embuggerance
And Finally, For Now, the Fall of the Novel
British Fiction Focus: A New Hope
A Dangerous Game
The YA Book Prize
It’s Dark Down Under
The Man Booker and the Future
For the Love of Those Above
Those Lost Lovegroves
Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel’s Body Work
The Good Wolf
Joe Abercrombie’s Half the World UK Cover
David Ramirez and the Disc of Apocalypse
The BFI Celebrates Sci-Fi
Robson Returns
Chu’s Day
Aliette de Bodard Shatters Paris
British Fiction Hitlist: December New Releases
Remembering P. D. James
Matthew de Abaitua’s If Then
World Book Night is Back
A Pottermore Christmas
Philip Pullman Releases New His Dark Materials Story for Christmas
Swiftly Does It
A New Look for Peter Higgins’ Wolfhound Books
Ark Leads the Robot Reboot
David Mitchell Reprises “The Right Sort”
Cold Season, Cold Silence
Back to Hell with Clive Barker
Three Moments and Uprooted Cover Art
Great British Bestsellers
Alastair Reynolds Roundup
Day Four Follows The Three
The Witcher Will Be Back
Seveneves of Neal Stephenson
Covering Crashing Heaven
Regarding the Relevance of Rushdie
The Look of The Book of Phoenix
Ian McDonald’s New Moon
Down to Down Station
Moorcock Gets Meta
Coming Soon to A Small, Angry Planet Near You
Mazel Tov! Jurassic London Celebrates Two New Anthologies
The Skull Throne Shown
The Thorn of Emberlain at Last
Terry Pratchett: The Legend Lives On
The Blades of Robert Jackson Bennett
Margaret Atwood’s Heart Goes Last
Hunting Rebecca Levene’s The Hollow Gods
And the Winner of the Inaugural YA Book Prize Is…
Announcing Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
The Horror of the Herberts
Announcing the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
Announcing the 2014 BSFA Award Winners
Half a War and Beyond
Tom Fletcher Does the Devil’s Work
Gollancz Can’t Get Enough S.N.U.F.F.
Djinnthology Joy
Landing The Apollo Quartet
Voyager Goes Virtual
#GollanczFest ’15: Gollancz Harder
Titan Acquires Two Nina Allan Novels
Forget Me Not: Claire North’s Next
The British SFF Book Trade on Brexit
Metropolitan Monsters: Revealing The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
News & Commentary
Introducing the British Genre Fiction Focus
Dispatches from the Digital First Front
Completing the Dark Circus Cycle
Speak to Me
Redesigning Dune
Freda Warrington’s Blood Wine Sequence Continues!
Aliette de Bodard Nukes Notre-Dame
Kenstibec is Back
Speak His Name: Covering The Shepherd’s Crown
A Land Fit For Heroes: The Steel Remains Video Game
Adam Nevill’s Upcoming Novel, Lost Girl
Revealing The Guns of Ivrea by Clifford Beal
Covering Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
Covering Twelve Kings by Bradley Beaulieu
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is Coming!
Covering The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
Next Stop, Central Station
Covering The Promise of the Child
Covering Long Dark Dusk by JP Smythe
The United States of Japan Needs You!
Occupy Your Time with Tricia Sullivan’s New Novel!
Covering Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
The Story of The Story of Kullervo
The Sharp Ends of Joe Abercrombie
Angry Robot Announces An Accident of Stars
Covering The High Mountains of Portugal
Solaris Announces Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell
Covering The End of the World Running Club
Covering The Medusa Chronicles
Covering Down Station by Simon Morden
Covering Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Covering Dead Letters
Announcing the 2015 British Fantasy Award Winners
The End of the Eternals: Covering Those Below
Watching the World Burn: The Fireman by Joe Hill
A New NME: The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Fellside by M. R. Carey
Need a Ride? BITE by K. S. Merbeth
Forever Autumn: Gollancz Announces Another War of the Worlds
Legends Emerge: Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Costa Book Awards
Discworld Artist to Sculpt a Statue of Terry Pratchett
New Tolkien Poems Found in Old Annual
Margaret Atwood’s Hag-seed Revealed
Writing the Future via A Pair of Prizes
Robots Revolt: Revealing The Corporation Wars by Ken MacLeod
Revealing The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
Revealing Poison City by Paul Crilley
Analysing the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award Submissions List
Revealing A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Revealing The Gradual by Christopher Priest
Revealing A Window into Time by Peter F. Hamilton
Let The Clown Wars Commence! Revealing Blood & Aspic by Joseph D’Lacey & Jeremy Drysdale
J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Book of the Film of the Book
2016: An Arthur C. Clarke Award Odyssey
Are Physical Books Back After “A Bad Attack of Technodazzle”?
Revealing Alastair Reynolds’ Revenger
Revealing The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard
Revealing Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
New Editions of The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Renewal and Rebirth: An Interview with Mark Charan Newton
Poetry in Motion: An Interview with Anna Smaill
In Absentia: Revealing The Rift by Nina Allan
Before the Last Breath: Revealing The End of the Day by Claire North
Revealing Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi
Revealing Release by Patrick Ness
Philip Pullman Announces The Book of Dust
Announcing the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
Revealing Paris Adrift by E. J. Swift
Revealing The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
Out of the Darkness: Revealing After the Fire by Will Hill
She’s Electric: Naomi Alderman Wins the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
More Than the Sum: Check out the UK Edition of Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin
Colson Whitehead Is the Winner of the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Hitlist: Upcoming Book Releases
British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Late June New Releases
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British Genre Fiction Hitlist: Late August New Releases
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