Friday Favourites: the best things we read and watched in July
By Hodderscape Team

From warrior maidens to awesome aliens, here are the best things we read and watched this month.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 31, 2015
FILED UNDER: Friday Favourites
TAGS: becky chambers
By Hodderscape Team
From warrior maidens to awesome aliens, here are the best things we read and watched this month.
MOREBy Fleur Clarke
Today we publish Dragon Fall by Katie MacAlister, a steamy romance about a young girl who stumbles across a gloriously naked man who can shift into a dragon. Suffice to say, you play with fire when you date a dragon and things get pretty heated. Want your own mythical man or wondrous woman? Don’t wing it, find out which magical creature you belong with in our quiz.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 29, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Events and exhibitions, Young Adult
By Anne Perry
We came, we saw, we YALC’d.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 28, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Science Fiction, becky chambers
By Hodderscape Team
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the jubilant debut novel from Becky Chambers, set on board a patched-up old spaceship called The Wayfarer. Welcome to your new obsession. Here are 10 reasons why you’re going to love it.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 24, 2015
FILED UNDER: Film, Friday Favourites
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By Hodderscape Team
Last weekend we attended the Young Adult Literature Convention with Chapter 5. Being part of London Film and Comic Con, there were some incredible cosplays, but the ones that impressed us most were the Disney princesses fully decked out in hooped skirt and flowing wigs. So we’re picking out which Disney princesses we’d cosplay as!
MOREPOSTED ON: July 23, 2015
FILED UNDER: Film
TAGS: Bond, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Hodderscape, LOTR, Star Wars
By Pat Black
I want to stick up for unloved, underappreciated or unrealised things in sci-fi and fantasy. It’s time to say the unsayable.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 16, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Dune, Science Fiction
By Anne Perry
It’s Dune Day! Today we celebrate the publication of our new and beautiful 50th anniversary edition of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the most enduring works of science fiction ever written. But let’s set aside ‘the greatest’ and ‘the best’ and ‘the most important’ and ‘the definitive’ and all those other phrases we love to toss around when talking about classic novels. Instead, let’s talk about what it means to be a beloved book, and why Dune has been not just a classic novel, but a beloved one, for fifty years.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 15, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, News
TAGS: Acquisition Announcement, Fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay
By Oliver Johnson
We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the latest novel by the legendary Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay for publication on May 12th 2016. The deal was negotiated by Jonny Geller of agents Curtis Brown UK.
MOREPOSTED ON: July 15, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books
TAGS: Science Fiction, becky chambers
By Fleur Clarke
Becky Chambers’ joyful space opera The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet publishes next month, and here’s Becky herself to tell you more about it (and crack a hilarious space joke).
MOREPOSTED ON: July 14, 2015
FILED UNDER: Competition
TAGS: David Mitchell
By Fleur Clarke
David Mitchell’s mind-bending metaphysical thriller The Bone Clocks has just been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award. We feel a celebratory giveaway is in order.
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