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On Tor.com (“Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects”), multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist Cat Sparks discusses The Death of Grass – The One Book That Shook My Faith in Nature and Humanity....
‘We like to turn the thing into a sort of family party, up at the chalet,’ Hamilton said. ‘With only a few guests, and pretty well isolated, one more or less has to. I’ll tell...
Jane Winchmore had been widowed early – she could scarcely be thirty. Her best feature was her hair, which was thick silky gold, cut short, but she had the kind of features that went well...
They swung round another corner, and Douglas saw the house. It was built high up in a bowl that some geological cataclysm, long ago, had scooped out of the mountain side. The road they were...
The Possessors had a long memory, but not long enough to encompass their origins. At one time, it seemed likely, they had had a separate life, but for aeons which were now uncountable their life...
The strapline for Fantasy Literature is ‘Life’s too short to read bad books’, and their recent review of Wrinkle in the Skin – in which the earth is hit by the mother of all earthquakes...
Originally published in 1956 (in the USA as No Blade of Grass, under which title it was filmed by Cornel Wilde), The Death of Grass marks a watershed in the history of the twentieth-century post-apocalyptic...
29th September sees the UK publication in the Penguin Worlds classic science-fiction series of a new edition of John Christopher’s The World in Winter, in which the Thames freezes, the whole of Europe lies under...
He said: ‘A light. Can you see it?’ His voice was different. Her own gaze had been concentrated on watching the patch of candle-light immediately in front of their feet. She looked up and saw...
She looked at the place where rock and water almost met, doused the candle and put it away in her pocket and then, waiting no longer, plunged forward head first and began swimming under water....