The Shambling Guide To New York City book review

The Shambling Guide To New York City by Mur Lafferty is out 28 May 2013 from Orbit

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes book review

The Shining Girls by Arthur C Clarke Award-winning Lauren Beukes is out 25 April 2013

Harry Potter director Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini’s House Of Secrets is out 25 April 2013

Fairytale subversion Poison by horror queen Sarah Pinborough is out 18 April 2013

Promise Of Blood (the Powder Mage Trilogy) by Brian McClellan is out 16 April 2013

Author Sarah Pinborough on her “very different” updated fairytales

Vurt by Jeff Noon is back on shelves 11 April 2013 in honour of the book’s 20th anniversary

The author of the Dog-Faced Gods series and Poison gives advice on writing horror fiction

The Skin Map by Stephen R Lawhead is out now from Lion Hudson

Michael Grant brings the epic Gone saga to a close with www.gone-online.com game

Peter F Hamilton, Ken MacLeod and Joe Abercrombie in the best SF and fantasy of 2012

Soylent Green, Bill, The Galactic Hero and Stainless Steel Rat author Harry Harrison dead at 87.

Read the first chapter from The Dark Legacy of Shannara: Wards Of Faerie by Terry Brooks, on sale 23 August 2012 priced £18.99

Christopher Priest’s 1972 novel Fugue For A Darkening Island reviewed by a reader of the SciFiNow Book Club. Let us know what you’ve been reading!

SciFiNow issue 55 demystifies the amazing world of science fiction with Everything You Need To Know About SF (But Were Afraid To Ask)