The Glass Sentence has a fascinating premise with an intricate and ambitious world-building around it. Even though at times said world-building – given its scope – encounters inevitable hurdles and fails to live up to its full potential, my…
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Hello everyone and Happy Sunday to all! This week was not cool, friends. It gave us a lot of heartbreak and headache. Andrew Smith, Systemic Sexism and the Call for Kindness: If you were not on Twitter or around…
We are thrilled to post an excerpt from Walter Mosley’s newest novel, Inside a Silver Box ABOUT THE BOOK Inside a Silver Box by Walter Mosley Published by Tor Available now In Inside a Silver Box, two people brought…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reviews a short novel that has been receiving a lot of good buzz in the UK. Despite Ana’s reservations about one aspect of the story, Elysium by Jennifer…
Bone Gap is a book about perspective. About the difference between looking and seeing. About fairytales, self-image, the heavy burden that beauty can be and the pernicious ways we look at and treat women. It’s awfully tense and there…
This novel offers an incredible portrayal of this world and its precarious balance between feminism and misogyny, offering a skilful take on female empowerment and agency with a great pair of main female characters. Title: Razorhurst Author: Justine Larbalestier…
Today, we share the trailer for Zeroboxer written by Fonda Lee and releasing April 8, 2015 from Flux/Llewellyn. Not your usual book trailer, it features the author’s favorite parts about writing Zeroboxer: envisioning and depicting the sport of zeroboxing.…
In which we showcase the cover of a new slipstream fantasy from Elizabeth Hand. Today we are thrilled to unveil the cover, synopsis and first chapter excerpt of a new short novel by Elizabeth Hand – a slipstream fantasy/horror…
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Old School Wednesdays: Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising Sequence #3) by Susan Cooper
Ana has been reading The Dark Is Rising Sequence for the past few months. Today, she tackles book 3, Greenwitch Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of…
SFF in Conversation is a monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe (moderated)…
