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With the winner of this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award being announced on Thursday 1 May, award director Tom Hunter examines the reaction to this year’s shortlist This is a guest blog by the director of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction, Tom Hunter… (opens in new …

The American fantasy author talks history, urban fantasy and Deadly Curiosities This is a guest blog by Gail Z Martin, writer of the Deadly Curiosities Adventures series, whose new book Deadly Curiosities will be published by Solaris in July… The 370 year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart …

It’s coming this Saturday and Rebecca Moriarty explains why Londoners should attend… This is a guest blog by Rebecca Moriarty, founder of League of Extraordinary Cosplayers and Head of Press for AnimeLeague . And this is a video from last year’s event in Leicester: This Saturday, 12 April, AnimeLeague will …

I am a straight up and down sucker for old British science fiction movies. You know the sort, filled with quiet country villages, salt-of-the-Earth farmers and UNKNOWABLE DOOM FROM BEYOND THE STARS! (Cue the theremin). The various Quatermass es ( Quatermi ?), X The Unknown , everything John Wyndham wrote, …

Bastard Zane is a numbercruncher, an operative of the afterlife. As his name suggests, Bastard is not the normal angel. A former cockney enforcer, he was murdered and begged for one more year with the love of his life. As he did so, a contract appeared in front of him …

(opens in new tab) I don’t get to go to the cinema as often as I used to. Having a toddler makes it more difficult to just head out on a whim and the fact that my other half works away several days a week makes it even more difficult. …

Why? Well, for starters, her sister. I’ll get to fair Kenya in a minute, but whatever Kenya is, she is because Amanda didn’t let her die as a child. That right there makes me like Amanda. Her mother was clearly a self-serving coward who abandoned her children when times got …

Author Snorri Kristjansson asks, what have the Vikings ever done for us? With the release of his book Swords Of Good Men upon us, we’ve invited author Snorri Kristjansson to share a guest blog about those horned funsters, the Vikings: (opens in new tab) The year is 793. In Lindisfarne, …

Cosplay, videogames, music and more… Rebecca Moriarty reveals what to look forward to at this month’s anime event A guest blog about London Anime Con: London Anime Convention kicks off 20-21 July 2013 at the London Rocket Complex, Holloway Road . Over a thousand people are expected to attend a …

Last month I, and several friends and acquaintances from various sci-fi social groups were invited to a little shindig in Birmingham. Since I joined the SFX forum back in 2006 there has always been a social aspect to the community I found there. From arranging to see people at conventions, …