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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction Feature Writer: Colin Harvey

Find reviews of the latest SF/ fantasy magazines such as Interzone , and new and classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels, from Isaac Asimov's I,Robot to Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber.

From H.G. Wells to Stephen Baxter, J.K. Rowling to Stephen King, Robert Heinlein to China Mieville and even newer talent making their debut in the bookstores, we'll look at the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, the latest award winners, the classics and the debut titles.

Discussions on topics specific to spec-fic, from world-building to making your aliens alien, and resources at organizations like the British Fantasy Society or the Science Fiction Writers of America.

You can email me or post in the forum if there is a book, author or topic you'd like to discuss!


Feature Writer Articles in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction

F & SF January – February 2010 Reviewed
New stories from Kate Wilhelm, Paul Park, Robert Reed, John Langan, Steven Popkes, Marc Laidlaw; reviews by Lucius Shepherd, Charles de Lint & Chris Moriarty.
Drood by Dan Simmons, Reviewed
Simmons' successor to Arctic adventure The Terror neatly fuses narrator Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone with The Mystery of Edwin Drood, laced with mesmerism and Egyptology
Interzone 225 From TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction from Jason Sanford, Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar; book reviews of Gardner Dozois' Year's Best SF, Greg Egan's Oceanic; film reviews of Up, District 9 and Dorian Grey.
Joe Haldeman's Forever Free, Reviewed
References from The Book of Genesis through Exodus to Revelations hint at the true nature of this odd conclusion to a triptych that includes Forever Peace.
Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner, Reviewed
Compared to John Meaney's Bone Song, Charlie Huston's Almost Human and Mike Carey's The Devil You Know, Angry Robot's new novel owes a debt to Dungeons & Dragons.


Contributing Articles in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction

St. Antony's Fire by Steve White
Can antimatter weapons, hidden parallel worlds, brave sea dogs, and the Queen of England coexist? Between the covers of a Steve White novel, they most certainly can.
The Host, by Stephenie Meyer – Book Review
Souls have taken over the Earth and are using human bodies as hosts. But for one soul, however, her host body refuses to fade away.
Book Review – Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures (Berkley Trade, 2004) is the first in a long and growing series of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels by Laurell K. Hamilton.
The Strain - Book Review
Guillermo Del Toro's Fictional Debut The Strain is a Guilty Pleasure Injected With Blood, Gore and Lots of Blockbuster Potential
H.P. Lovecraft and Modern Horror Fiction
Though H.P. Lovecraft lived in relative poverty and obscurity, his work has become one of the major foundations of present-day speculative fiction.