by Tsana | Jun 7, 2017 | Round-ups
Welcome, intrepid readers, to a look at another subgenre falling under the broad speculative fiction umbrella. This month I will be focussing on urban fantasy and paranormal romance. I’ve lumped them together for two reasons: one, there is a lot of cross over...
by Tsana | May 3, 2017 | Round-ups
Although Australia hasn’t been the most fertile ground for science fiction — for whatever reason, the planets didn’t quite align for it the way they did for fantasy — there is still enough variety to divide it up into subgenres. This month I want to focus...
by Tsana | Apr 5, 2017 | Round-ups
Horror is one of those genres that often gets overlooked in Australia. When I was dividing my AWW round-ups into fantasy, science fiction and horror, horror was consistently the least reviewed genre. But we have some great horror writers in Australia, many of them...
by Tsana | Mar 1, 2017 | Article
This month, instead of moving straight onto another subgenre of speculative fiction I thought I’d shine a light on the most prestigious spec fic awards in Australia: the Aurealis Awards. The awards were first established in 1995 and, although the categories have...
by Tsana | Feb 1, 2017 | Round-ups
This year, instead of doing the same sort of monthly round-ups that I’ve been doing for the past four years, I thought I’d mix it up a bit and focus on a different subgenre of science fiction, fantasy or horror each month. This month, to start us off,...
