A number of fables and fairy tales have characters who are tricksters. But it was when he bothered to wonder “Why?” that author Martin Cahill...

  On the surface, Hazel Zorn’s weird horror novella Reef Mind (paperback, Kindle) seems to be a story about nature in revolt. But as she explains...

  Some writers will assemble collections of their short stories around a shared theme. But for her first short story collection, The Butterfly’s...

  You know you might be in for something interesting when a story opens with a mutated camel walking down the street…in Alaska. It’s how author...

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  As someone who calls himself “an armchair environmentalist,” author Brendan Deneen says he thinks a lot about recycling. Which is how he struck...

  Nearly two decades after she released 2008’s Fortune And Fate, author Sharon Shinn is returning to the semi-medieval high fantasy realm of her...

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