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2012 Nebula Award Winners
The 2012 Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) were held last night in San Jose, California. The winners are listed below in green – let us know what you think. More information is available from the SFWA website: http://www.sfwa.org/2013/05/2012-nebula-award-winners-announced/ 2012 Damon Knight Grand Master Award Gene Wolfe Novel [...]
Competition: Win A Copy of Playing Tyler by T. L. Costa
The great folks over at Strange Chemistry have provided an advance reader copy of Playing Tyler by T. L. Costa to give away on Fantasy Book Review.
The Last Policeman wins 2013 Edgar Award for best paperback original
It gives me great pleasure to pass on some great news: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters has won the 2013 Edgar® Award for Best Paperback Original. The Last Policeman is the first in a trilogy of pre-apocalyptic police procedurals and this is what I thought of it: "The Last Policeman makes for compelling [...]
An extract from Plague Nation by Dana Fredsti
This extract was posted as part of the Plague Nation blog tour, celebrating the release of Dana Fredsti’s new novel. For the opportunity to win a copy of the book, simply tweet: “I would like a copy of Plague Nation @TitanBooks @danafredsti #plaguenation”. To read our review of its predecessor, Plague Town, a book we [...]
The Rosie Project to be first World Book Night book club title
Following the news that Sony Pictures has optioned screen rights for The Rosie Project, World Book Night has announced the novel as its first book club choice. The book club will run monthly from 1 May 2013 and will feature a newly published title each month recommended by WBN direct to their database of 80,000 [...]
Author undertakes 1,500-mile road trip to promote his historical adventure novel
Alabama author Skip Tucker will leave April 29 on a 1,500-mile drive to promote the national paperback release of his historical adventure novel, Pale Blue Light, at the annual re-enactment of the Civil War’s Battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3-5. The trip is timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the death of Stonewall [...]
Historical fiction authors to walk length of Hadrian’s Wall for charity
Just before Christmas 2012 Ben Kane, author of the Spartacus and Hannibal series, decided to walk the length of Hadrian’s Wall for charity. And in full Roman gear. Anthony Riches, author of the Empire series, and Russell Whitfield, author of the Gladiatrix novels, quickly agreed to join him (Mike Bishop, archaeologist, author and noted expert [...]
Chuck Wendig brings us a new world full of Gods and Monsters
Chuck Wendig, author of the excellent Blackbirds, returns with a brand new title and a brand new world in Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits. Note to reviewers (existing and potential): I have this book in ebook format, if you would like to read and review for the site then please email me. The gods and [...]
The 2013 World Book Night’s flagship events
On 23rd April 2013 the ‘World Book Night Experience’ will play out. across the country, libraries and bookshops will ‘stay up late’ and authors of all genres will share their writings and love of the written word with audiences of all ages. The 23rd of April is also UNESCO’s International Day of the Book and [...]
Top 10 fantasy audio-book downloads (April 2013)
I’ve not done a post of this type for a while so I thought today would be a good time to remedy this. The list below is interesting for many reasons, some of which I will mention briefly. First, the positive, and just how encouraging it is to see a successful TV series result in [...]
Four books - old and new alike - that were a joy to read are selected each month. See past winners.
Ack-Ack MacaqueGareth L Powell
Days of Blood and StarlightLaini Taylor
Hemlock GroveBrian McGreevy
Zoo CityLauren Beukes
Fantasy series we recommend