On Thursday 12th September, Warner Bros. and J.K. Rowling released a joint statement to announce that WB would be producing a new film set within the wizarding world of Harry Potter, and that this new film would be scripted by J.K. Rowling herself. (You can read the full press release on J.K. Rowling’s own website […]
As guest selector at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, celebrated fantasy author Neil Gaiman was the subject of no less than four events, each celebrating a different aspect of his literary work. Geekzine’s final event of this venerable festival was the one at which he discussed his comic book masterpiece The Sandman, which originally […]
Griff reviews a Neil Gaiman-edited collection of fantastical stories which fails to live up to its promise…. This review must be prefaced with a disclaimer: Unnatural Creatures is an anthology, the contents of which its authors have contributed for free in order to support the charity 826DC. Dedicated to encouraging the next generation of writers, […]
The Vengeance Path: The Lost Brother is an exciting new novella from Edinburgh-based fantasy author, Andrew Jamieson. Coming less than two months after the release of the acclaimed The Vengeance Path (the first book in The Chronicles of Edenos; book two, Children of War, is out next year), The Lost Brother was exclusively revealed at Andrew’s Edinburgh […]
The Vengeance Path is an epic tale of war, politics and (of course) revenge that was released as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.co.uk at the beginning of July, by Edinburgh-based e-publisher Thistle In The Kiss. Since then it has been a regular presence in the Kindle top 100 Steampunk Bestseller list. Blending high fantasy with […]
Hannah takes a look at renowned author Joanne Harris’ first foray into the fantasy genre…. Now, I’m not much of a fantasy/sci-fi reader, but having read several of Joanne Harris’ other novels (Chocolat etc), I was curious to see how she handled a different genre, and if she could persuade me to give it a […]