Category: (special) Guest Blogs

I just read a review of the film F*ckload of Scotch Tape that ended with this paragraph: “In the end, F*ckload of Scotch Tape is the cinematic equivalent of a repeated kick to the nuts …

You know, when I think about it, Wolf Tickets is a lot like cock fisting. Bear with me.

There was a time when being an admirer of Cormac McCarthy was more than a little like being a member of a cult.  It was before Oprah, when the only way you’d have heard of …

Ben Thompson is back to show you all the street and cosmic cred Doctor Doom has.

Simone on the beat meeting the Game of Thrones cast… and towering over them?

DC’s rich playboy mortal detective gets the badass treatment from Ben Thompson. Are you prepared?

I was going to write an essay describing the state of the speculative fiction genre, or describing my uneasiness with certain genre-oriented tenets, but I decided not to. I thought, then, that I might write …

The great Guy Gavriel Kay blesses my blog.

Erin Evans is back from the Realms to outline your life.

There are many pro writers out there worried by piracy, who see the internet as the greatest illegal intellectual land-grab of all time. Here’s the deal:  if you’re worried enough to want to stop it, …

It does seem like the eternal war between SF and the mainstream just goes on and on and on, doesn’t it? One minute you think it’s dead and buried, the next it’s climbing back out of …

Is it possible to break the rules of fantasy writing by adhering to them too strictly?  When Borders UK first shelved my novel Ice Land in the Fantasy/Sci Fi section, I was gobsmacked (to use …

The author of the bestselling Sandman Slim series is here to bless you with a guest blog.

I’m definitely trying to make a statement about religion in my novels, at least in the case of the Safehold novels, although people who have read my other books will be aware that I’ve used …

What do authors do when they’re not writing? I race my dogs in a sport that is fun, loud, exciting, and crazy. It’s called flyball.

Ian R. MacLeod visits Miclonian to help you make your way through all the Londons.

I’ve always loved mythology in all its forms. These are the stories that inform our collective unconscious; these are the raw stuff of our dreams. Gods and monsters, heroes and villains, saviors and victims. All …

When I decided to call From The Files Of The Time Rangers, a Mosaic Novel, I thought that the term was one that Jeff VanderMeer had invented for his brilliant multi-layered Veniss Underground. But when …

Darth Vader is your father. But you knew that already, didn’t you? Despite the power of those words to evoke a reaction of surprise – a shiver of fear, a frisson of titillation – don’t …