• Genre Introductions – How the Fantasy Genre Weaves Its Magic

    Bethan Beddow Fantasy is a genre where the reader is thrown into a completely new world of unlimited imagination, of faeries and goblins, of supernatural wars and celestial magic. It allows us to explore the depths of our untethered minds; we visualise alien kings and mermaid queens and pretend...
  • Am I The Only One… Or Is The Force Awakens A Complete Failure?

    Probably spoilers ahead. Obviously. After over a year of hyperbolic promotion, a decade since the last one and 32 years since ‘the last good one’, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released two weeks ago. The product of an industry titan acquiring a cultural juggernaut, and made by hundreds...