Liz Bourke
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Sleeps With Monsters: In Conversation With Tasha Suri
Recently, I caught up with Tasha Suri over Zoom to discuss her life, career, and writing during a global pandemic, in advance of her forthcoming and highly anticipated The Jasmine Throne, a queer e… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: C.L. Polk Answers Seven Questions
Canadian C.L. Polk is a writer and gentlebeing of tact and good taste. The concluding volume of their award-winning Kingston trilogy, Soulstar, has just recently come out, and their The Midnight Ba… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Into the Woods With Emily Tesh and Carrie Vaughn
The theme this week is, it seems, woodland, history, and its secrets. → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 5
Hello, friends and readers! It’s been over thirty days since I spent time with a human who wasn’t my wife or (from a safe, two-metre distance) my mother. I expect I’ll be looking … → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: What to Read When the Whole World’s Falling Apart, Part 3
Another week, another column with reading recommendations to hide under a rock with! But first, some bad news. We’re living through the kind of disaster that hits hard at the publishing and b… → Read More
An Explosive Debut: The Perfect Assassin by K.A. Doore
K.A. Doore’s The Perfect Assassin is a priceless gift of a book. Or so it felt to me, anyway. I’ve been finding it difficult to enjoy reading lately, to concentrate on how the words fit… → Read More
Fun, Messy Time Travel: Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield
I’m coming to the conclusion that Kate Heartfield may be the author whose work proves the exception to my “time travel stories never satisfy me” rule. Time travel is messy, and in… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Engaging Fantasy Thrillers
How’s 2019 treating you so far, friends? I’m personally finding the onslaught of new and excellent books a little overwhelming. Into that overwhelming (but excellent) category fall the … → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Phyllis Ann Karr’s Sword and Sorcery Novels
Recently, Sonya Taaffe chanced to mention Phyllis Ann Karr in one of her blog posts. Karr has never been a prolific author of science fiction and fantasy, and she remains best-known for her Arthuri… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Jumping Into C.J. Cherryh’s Alliance-Union Books
A little while ago, I received an ARC of Alliance Rising, C.J. Cherryh’s collaboration with her spouse Jane Fancher, set in Cherryh’s Alliance-Union continuity—the universe of Cherryh&#… → Read More
Novelist, Screenwriter, and Author of The Princess Bride William Goldman, 1931-2018
William Goldman, acclaimed author, screenwriter, raconteur, and chronicler of Broadway theater and Hollywood passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Goldman had a fascinating life and career, writi… → Read More
A Compelling Police Procedural (with Magic!): Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
Lies Sleeping is the latest instalment in Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series of magical murder mysteries, set in London and featuring a London Metropolitan police force that really doesn… → Read More
How Jane Yolen’s Dragon’s Blood Burned Its Way Into Brandon Sanderson’s Memory
At signings, people sometimes ask me which authors it is that I turn into a fanboy over. Questions like this are one of the things I love about the fantasy and science fiction community—the underst… → Read More
High-Stakes Space Opera: Mass Effect: Annihilation by Catherynne M. Valente
Mass Effect: Andromeda: Annihilation is the third of three planned tie-in novels to Bioware’s fourth Mass Effect game, Mass Effect: Andromeda—a game that was a new departure for the space ope… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Fast and Fun Reads
For today’s entertainment, I’m going to tell you about two short, enjoyable works of fiction. One’s a novella, and the other’s a novel, and both of them are very engaged in … → Read More
Nobody’s Land: Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman
Terra nullius is a legal concept, arising from the Roman legal concept of res nullius. Res nullius means “nobody’s thing,” and applied to such things as wild beasts, lost slaves, … → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Uplifting Post-apocalypses from Carrie Vaughn
The trend in post-apocalyptic fiction is usually for brutality and dog-eat-dog, for cruelty and nihilism. Rarely do you find quiet, practical, damn near domestic stories about life in the communiti… → Read More
New “Deleted” Wheel of Time Novella to Appear in Unfettered III in 2019
When Shawn Speakman and Grim Oak Press released the first Unfettered anthology in 2013, the epic fantasy collection included “River of Souls,” a deleted scene from Robert Jordan and Bra… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Melissa Scott’s Dreamships and Dreaming Metal
This week’s column is likely to be my last to focus on Melissa Scott’s work, at least for a little while. I haven’t yet got my hands on A Choice of Destinies, Night Sky Mine, Burn… → Read More
Sleeps With Monsters: Melissa Scott’s The Game Beyond
The Game Beyond is Melissa Scott’s first novel. Originally published by Baen Books in 1984, two years—if I may be permitted to show my age, or lack of it—before I was born, it was reissued in… → Read More