Robots falling in love with each other, suicide-addicted thrill seekers who are uploaded into new bodies each time they die, societies where citizens are given a certain number of hours to live and a built-in clock they can monitor as it ticks down, sentient beings born inside computer networks... Alan loved this new collection from RB Kelly

Alan looks at the latest edition of Fission, the BSFA's annual collection of SFF.

Eternal warriors, virtual reality, space scavengers and sparrows! Alan looks at the latest Shoreline of Infinity and reviews the fiction

There’s a heady blend of cardamom and cloves that go in the third, along with tea leaves that resemble charred twigs. It is the third she fears today, for the Shibra leaves demand time (time she does ...

In this issue of Interzone: stories by E.G. Condé, Rachael Cupp, Mame Bougouma Diene, Josh Pearce, Ben Tufnell, Corey Jae White, and Rebecca Zahabi; columns by Alexander Glass, Una McCormack, Val Nola...

Oh gosh, it’s been months since this issue of Interzone came out, but luckily the next one isn’t quite out the door, so I’ve still got time to tell you how much I enjoyed one of t…

Oh gosh, it's been months since this issue of Interzone came out, but luckily the next one isn't quite out the door, so I've still got time to tell you how much I enjoyed one of the best spec-fit (or fantastika, as IZ puts it) magazines out there.

Alan took a gander at the latest edition of Parsec. Parsec is edited by veteran author, editor and publisher Ian Whates and it won the British Fantasy Award for best periodical in 2025. All of which is to say, if you're not subscribing, why not? Tell them Supernova sent you!

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Finally pulled my finger out to review the latest Wyldblood, which is, as ever, a mixture of strange and interesting stories.    

A horror edition of Mythaxis this time round, with six varied and stirring stories alongside articles and reviews.

Alan reviews a cracking new issue of Parsec - why haven't you subscribed yet?

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.  Alan reviews the latest Shoreline of Infinity

An upsettingly late review of a brilliant issue of Interzone. Stand out stories by Corey Jae White and Ashley Stokes.

(Newcon Press 2025) The new novella by 2025 BSFA award-winner Aliya Whiteley is expertly written – it's a pastiche of those mid-century country house novels married to a couple of pulpy genre plots, and it all fits together really well. There’s not a moment wasted here. While her Three-Eight-One still puzzles me, it’s the kind of puzzle I want to solve rather than abandon.

Some strong stories in the latest edition of Mythaxis.

One of the questions I ask when reviewing a single author anthology is ‘what’s special about it?’ There are plenty of story collections that are perfectly good but nonetheless fail to create that frisson of intrigue that makes them shine. In Pete W. Sutton's A Tiding of Magpies, reissued last year with extra stories, I felt that mental ‘shiver’ a few times.

This is another strong issue of Wyldblood, with a good mixture of fantasy and sci-fi.

After the Christmas holidays and the new-year slump, Alan gets back in the saddle with a review of the most recent issue of Parsec.

Reading Mythaxis really brings home that there are some great unknown (or relatively unknown) writers out there.

Happy New Year from Supernova! The landmark 300th issue of Interzone has been out for a while, so as you can see I’m still playing catch-up with the reviews….

Self-imposed deadlines have no meaning, at least, not to me any more. I started Parsec issue 11 on the flight from Birmingham to Glasgow for Worldcon in August and was honestly blown away….

BFS Horizons is a bit of a hidden gem.Sent out to members of the society but also available to purchase in the usual places, it often contains some truly wonderful stories, and this issue is a good…

GARLAND is a guest-edited biannual literary magazine by fifth wheel press. Named for a garland of sonnets, this magazine will be exclusively shaped by...

A great crop this time round from Shoreline. Alan reviews Shoreline of Infinity #38

Supernova's dystopian connoisseur - Alan - looks at this new collection of short fiction inspired by Zamyatin, and published by Scottish small press Luna Publishing.

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The spring edition of Parsec is a strong issue, the majority of stories are well-written, so I'm going to highlight the five I found most noteworthy and memorable.