Tag Archive | "fantasy"

Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, A Princess of Mars: Burroughs’ heroes a century on

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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An unexpected and rather lovely package arrived for me the other day from the Library of America, a pair of quite beautiful small hardback editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes and A Princess of Mars. On May 14th, 1912, Burroughs recorded that he had finished writing Tarzan of the Apes; a century [...]

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Director’s Commentary: the art of writing fantasy

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Today we have a nice treat for science fiction and fantasy fans with only our second guest Director’s Commentary post on a prose work, I’m delighted to welcome a highly regarded fantasy writer I’ve known and whose work I’ve enjoyed for years, Juliet E McKenna: I do words, not pictures. I cannot draw anything but [...]

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Red Kingdom Rising

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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Red Kingdom Rising is a very intriguing new British Indy horror from Navin Dev, and one which, I am delighted to say, avoids the far too easy route some less skilled new film-makers take in creating a horror flick and thinking sudden jumps or needless splatter or sadistic torture equals genuine horror (not that I [...]

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Anne McCaffrey, RIP

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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(Anne McCaffrey, pic borrowed from Suvudu) The Twitterverse this evening started passing around news that Anne McCaffrey, one of the great writers of science fiction and fantasy, had passed away. I couldn’t find any confirmation online until just a few moments ago – James Long directed me to Tor and I see noted SF publisher [...]

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Lunar man – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore

Friday, November 11, 2011

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Recently we mentioned on the blog that Steve Moore, scribe of many an essay, book and comic, friend and mentor to Alan Moore, had a fascinating new novel, Somnium, coming out, and as it is a book that carries an endorsement not only by Alan but also from Michael Moorcock it is quite obviously a [...]

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Peter S Beagle interviewed

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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In another video recorded at the New York Comic Con and uploaded by Alexander Williams, BailyCat interviews the wonderful Peter S Beagle, discussing his classic novel The Last Unicorn and the final resolution of a long legal battle over a film version. As with yesterday’s video from the same team it was recorded on the [...]

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Director’s Commentary: The Weird

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Following yesterday’s cracking comics intro to The Weird by Leah Thomas (see here), today we have a slightly different Director’s Commentary for you – until now mostly we’ve featured comics creators discussing the making of their new work (although Oli East also treated us to a Commentary on how he created the animation for Elbow’s [...]

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British Fantasy Award Winners

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Locus Online has details of the winners of this year’s British Fantasy Awards from the British Fantasy Society, held at the weekend’s FantasyCon, and among those being honoured this year I am delighted to see that one of the books which scored highly with the blog team and many of our guests during our annual [...]

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DC52 – Demon Knights

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Demon Knights DC Comics, By Paul Cornell and Diogenes Neves Right from word go, this comic feels different. It’s without doubt firmly set in the fantasy genre, with the best elements of DC’s darker fantasy, sometimes well known from Vertigo pages, but also drawing on characters that are a key part of the main DC [...]

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Robert Holdstock evening at the British Library

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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Sarah Biggs, partner of the late and much missed Robert Holdstock, drops us a line to alert us to what sounds like a very fine event at the British Library in London, perfect for any reader who enjoys the best SF&F has to offer, as the Robert’s work is celebrated. From the description: “In his [...]

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Suvudu talks SF&F

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Suvudu has posted up some interesting videos chatting to some top writers from the world of science fiction and fantasy, including the hugely bestselling George RR Martin, author of A Game of Thrones (currently wowing TV viewers with a quite excellent adaptation too): 2011 Event Video: George R. R. Martin from Suvudu on Vimeo. Patrick [...]

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Conan the Barbarian trailer

Friday, May 6, 2011

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So, what are we thinking about the reworking of Robert E Howard’s classic barbarian for the new movie?

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Gollancz is 50

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the UK’s most famous major science fiction publishers, Victor Gollancz, which has published some truly brilliant work by some fantastic writers as diverse as Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, Pierre Pevel, Ian McDonald, Ben Aaronovitch, John Bruner, Sheri S Tepper, Joe Abercrombie, Michael Moorcock, Robert Holdstock, Joe [...]

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Big sneak peek at Game of Thrones

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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There’s a sneak preview up of the upcoming and eagerly anticipated television adaptation of George R R Martin’s hugely bestselling Game of Thrones fantasy and for a change it’s no 1 minute wonder of a trailer, it’s pretty a pretty darned substantial look at what we can expect (link via SFX and Mia Cookson):

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Diana Wynne Jones passes away

Monday, March 28, 2011

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(Diana with adorable kitty, pic borrowed from and (c) her author-approved fan site) I missed hearing about this at the weekend until a friend in my SF book group mentioned it to me – very sad to report that the wonderful fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones has finally succumbed to her long fight against cancer. [...]

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