The Fantasy Hive - A U.K. Wonderland
A hub for all things fantasy (plus some SF). Book reviews, games, author interviews, features, serial fiction- you name it. The Fantasy Hive is a collaborative site formed of unique personalities who just want to celebrate fantasy. Btw, the SFF novel to the left by one of our members, Warwick Gleeson, was a "Top 150 Best Books" Kirkus pick in 2019.
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“You will never know the truth, and you will read the signs in accordance with your deepest wishes. That is what we humans always have to do. Reality is a cipher with many solutions, all of them right ones.” Iris Murdoch published The Flight From The Enchanter (1955) a year after her remarkable debut novel Under The Net (1954). Like her previous novel, it is usually thought of as literary fiction, but Murdoch continues to explore ideas around the malleability of consensus reality and the impossibility of true communication with a flare and inventiveness that would make any SF author proud. However, The Flight From The Enchanter, as its title suggests, is enlivened with r…
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Today, we’re super excited to welcome Cat Hellisen back to the Hive. They’re here today with an exploration of fairy tale retellings, something we’re rather partial to here! Read on to discover how Cat approached retellings in their latest novel Cast Long Shadows, and their upcoming novel Thief Mage, Beggar Mage… Queering the Retelling by Cat Hellisen When I tell people I’m a fan of retelling fairy tales and folk tales, I’m not being entirely truthful. I usually remember this when I blissfully go on to read or watch their recommendations and realise I needed a qualifier. I want retellings that unfold the story in a completely different way. I’ve spent my whole li…
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Reese Hogan (he/they) is a nonbinary transmasc science fiction author from New Mexico. He has published three novels, and the latest, Shrouded Loyalties from Angry Robot, was a Best SFF of August 2019 pick by both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. His short fiction has been published in The Decameron Project and Clockwork, Curses, and Coal, an anthology of steampunk fairy tale retellings. In addition to writing fiction, Reese is a content writer for the Writing Mastery Academy at www.writingmastery.com. Welcome back to the Hive, Reese! Let’s start with the basics: tell us about Shrouded Loyalties – why should readers check it out? Thank you, I’m excited to be …
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“When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One.” Rachel Pollack’s Temporary Agency (1994) is set in the same world as her classic novel Unquenchable Fire (1988), an alternate America in which a spiritual revolution led by a group of shamans called the Founders has resulted in a world where storytellers are revered and magic is a mundane part of everyone’s life. While both novels stand alone as individual works of fiction, it’s hard to imagine reading one and not wanting to read the other. Temporary Agency allows us to spend more time in Pollack’s wonderful world, whilst, like its predecessor, showing Pollack’s incredible knack for interweaving the fantast…
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We’re so excited to welcome Tabitha O’Connell to the Hive today! Tabitha is here to share with us eir recommendations of stories featuring queernormative worlds. Before we dive into them, let’s find out a little more about Tabitha’s own story, STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY Messenger boy Kel never expected to strike up a romance with a government official. But Yaan lacks the self-important snobbery of the others, and sees Kel as more than just a pretty face. Living with him in the city’s plush government complex is everything Kel could want: no more expenses, kitchen workers and resident animals to befriend, and of course seeing Yaan every day. Even if Yaan does spend most of his …
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Content warnings: domestic/family abuse and neglect (not graphic, consistent with Cinderella tropes); fantasy racism; fantasy slavery; multiple mentions of violent punishment/beatings/whippings; imprisonment; discussion of gender dysphoria (though as part of a positive transition experience). Stepping out in borrowed shoes has never been so dangerous. Stripped of her inheritance as a child by a greedy stepmother, Alla’s future hovers between drudgery and slavery. Having spent years toiling in the mansion that was once her happy home, tending to her stepmother’s every whim, she has long since put aside any thoughts of a better future. When a chance encounter in the mark…
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Welcome to the second week of our Readalong! Throughout June, we’re championing non-binary and trans authors in SFF. To celebrate, we’re hosting a readalong of Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun. Although it’s been on our TBR’s for some time, it’s the first time reading this for Nils and myself (Beth). We’ll be sticking to a reading schedule, which I’ll post below; we’ll be posting discussion points and questions every Monday via social media, and then Nils and I will be sharing our responses to these every Thursday. Be sure to follow our Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to catch our Monday posts. You can also join in our discussion on our Discord server. Wee…
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Today, we’re super excited to welcome Astrid Knight to the Hive! Astrid is here to talk all things magic systems. Before we hand you over to Astrid though, let’s find out more about their novel Perception Check: Her favorite tabletop roleplaying game is real, and her kidnapped childhood best friend is trapped in a far off land. Will she be able to save her? Let’s roll initiative! Violet Spence wants nothing more than to have a normal life. After witnessing her childhood best friend get abducted by monsters, that’s easier said than done. At twenty-three years old, Violet cannot seem to move past that fateful night ten years ago. Her only solace is Mages of Velmyra, a tab…
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