• Call for submissions: SpecFicNZ 2024 anthology

    Call for submissions: SpecFicNZ 2024 anthology

    Call for submissions to our 2024 SpecFicNZ anthology! Submissions close May 31, 2024. Kia ora and thanks for taking the time to think about submitting a story, poem, or artwork for use in SpecFicNZ’s latest anthology, Artificial Sweetener – Tales of AI (100% written by humans). This is meant to be a showcase of our…


  • Review: Alkaline Dawn by Piers Furney

    Review: Alkaline Dawn by Piers Furney

    Review by S R Manssen Set in a distant future where humans have ravaged planet Earth, the lucky portion of the population now inhabit MegaCity ML. The unlucky struggle to survive in the Wastes. The air is unbreathable, but technology has evolved and the city revolves around procuring energy to run the city, along with…


  • Call for submissions: SpecFicNZ 2024 anthology

    Call for submissions: SpecFicNZ 2024 anthology

    Call for submissions to our 2024 SpecFicNZ anthology! Submissions close May 31, 2024. Kia ora and thanks for taking the time to think about submitting a story, poem, or artwork for use in SpecFicNZ’s latest anthology, Artificial Sweetener – Tales of AI (100% written by humans). This is meant to be a showcase of our…


  • New Release: The Recycled Earth #3 – Survivors

    New Release: The Recycled Earth #3 – Survivors

    Survivors: The Recycled Earth #3 by J. J. Mathews Year 998 P.E. (Post Earth) They say that each of us are tested, every day. On the recovering Earth, that can be as simple as basic survival, one day at a time. Eighteen-year-old Miya and her companions have rescued Thomas – only to be rescued themselves…


  • Call for submissions: SpecFicNZ 2024 anthology

    Call for submissions: SpecFicNZ 2024 anthology

    Call for submissions to our 2024 SpecFicNZ anthology! Submissions close May 31, 2024. Kia ora and thanks for taking the time to think about submitting a story, poem, or artwork for use in SpecFicNZ’s latest anthology, Artificial Sweetener – Tales of AI (100% written by humans). This is meant to be a showcase of our…


  • Review: Bloodalcohol: Ten Tales by Michael Botur

    Review: Bloodalcohol: Ten Tales by Michael Botur

    Review by Nikky Lee Michael Botur returns for a tour de force of NZ horror with his latest short story collection, Bloodalcohol. The ten short stories contained inside feature a host of natural and unnatural horrors, from vampirism and ghosts to indentured community service.  In a voice that is recognisably Botur, these stories all feature…


  • Review: Emergency Weather by Tim Jones

    Review: Emergency Weather by Tim Jones

    Reviewed by Nicky Taylor Step into the world of a near-future Aotearoa, where global warming and the climate crisis are reaching a header and the powers that be are stretched to breaking point. Emergency Weather covers issues around global warming head on, while reaching into a range of diverse cultural experiences. From farmers to politicians,…


  • New Release: The Recycled Earth #2 – Droppers

    New Release: The Recycled Earth #2 – Droppers

    Droppers: The Recycled Earth #2 by J. J. Mathews Year 998 P.E. (Post Earth) The Earth is dead. Or is it? Searchers have spent centuries looking in vain for signs of recovery on the Earth below, and for hospitable planets out amongst the stars. Day in, day out, analysing the endless streams of images that……


  • Review: Songbird: Griffin Song #1 by J Victoria Micheal

    Review: Songbird: Griffin Song #1 by J Victoria Micheal

    Review by Melissa Gunn This novel started well; after a prologue giving some backstory of the main character, Irenya, we see a realistic portrayal of a harried mother experiencing a panic attack in a supermarket car park which ended with the main character entering another world through the portal of a reflective window. At this…


  • Review: Despatches by Lee Murray

    Review: Despatches by Lee Murray

    A Review by Deb E. Howell One might say that war doesn’t need monsters weaved into its fabric to become more horrific than it already is, but in the chaos of its threads, it presents fertile ground to grow a feasible conspiracy that we’re not the only dark forces on the battlefield. The mindless monster…


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