Spine Magazine follows the making of Dark Factory “Beginning to End.” Next up: Charlie Athanas, Creative Collaborator, AV/VR Design: SPINE-Beginning to End – Dark Factory: Creative Collaborator, AV/VR Design of Dark Park, Charlie Athanas My creative collaboration on the project started with someone I had never met (but not a stranger) appearing in my Twitter […] More
Spine Magazine follows the making of Dark Factory “Beginning to End.” Next up: Tricia Reeks, Design. SPINE-Beginning to End – Dark Factory: Design, Tricia Reeks Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory is a designer’s dream come true. So much opportunity from the book cover to the book design to the website to the merchandise and everything in […] More
Spine Magazine follows the making of Dark Factory “Beginning to End.” Next up: Tricia Reeks, Publisher. SPINE-Beginning to End – Dark Factory: Publisher: Publicity & Marketing, Tricia Reeks The first time Kathe Koja mentioned Dark Factory to me was in 2019. It sounded intriguing-immersive fiction, a story that goes beyond the printed page, blurring the […] More
Spine Magazine follows the making of Dark Factory “Beginning to End.” Next up: Christopher Schelling, Agent SPINE-Beginning to End – Dark Factory: Agent, Christopher Schelling Though I’ve known Kathe Koja for over thirty years, and I’ve been her agent for over twenty of them, she still surprises me with every project. (In truth, she surprises […] More
Spine Magazine follows the making of Dark Factory “Beginning to End.” First up: Kathe Koja, Author. SPINE-Beginning to End – Dark Factory: Author, Kathe Koja is a novel that starts in a hot dance club and expands outward into a world of customizable realities and universal human longings. And even before I started to write […] More
Dark Factory feels like it’s been ripped from the memories of current virtual partygoers–and that’s what makes it iconic. … Whether you party or work in XR, Dark Factory is an absolute must to pick up. Ready Player One was what the industry originally looked to for inspiration for building virtual platforms, but Dark Factory is a closer look at how […] More
Gabino Iglesias reviews Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory for Locus Magazine. Talking about Kathe Koja’s work is never easy, and that’s a good thing. Koja brings a constant explosion or language and ideas to the page, and Dark Factory, a novel that combines her skills as a writer with her experience as a performance artist, is no […] More
We were extremely pleased that one of our fav specfic publications, Aurealis Magazine, weighed in on Steve Simpson’s The Purpose of Reality: Solar (a collection of short fiction) & The Purpose of Reality: Lunar (a collection of poetry). A phantastic short story collection that’s as philosophical as it’s allegorical. Eugen Bacon, Aurealis Magazine Boldly layered […] More
Publishers Weekly had wonderful things to say about Steve Simpson’s debut story collection The Purpose of Reality: Solar! Simpson’s inventive debut collection (published simultaneously with companion poetry collection The Purpose of Reality: Lunar) incorporate elements of horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction to envision the lives of people enduring apocalypses both personal and global … Punctuated by […] More
Gabino Iglesias reviews Eugen Bacon’s MAGE OF FOOLS the June 2022 issue of Locus Magazine. This is an excerpt but we hope you’ll take the time to check out the full review at Locus. Standing on the shoulders of Bacon’s lyrical prose & it’s blend of high tech & folklore, this novel soars and helps […] More
Superb review of J.S. Breukelaar’s THE BRIDGE (an Aurealis Award finalist for best Horror Novel) in Aurealis Magazine! The Bridge is many things. It is dystopian, horror, mythos, cliched campus life, coming of age, witchcraft, poetry. It is the girl holding a bouquet of living snakes, biting their heads off. Chew, swallow, repeat. Despite taking […] More
We were so excited to see this insightful review of Eugen’s MAGE OF FOOLS in the The BFSA Review, edition #17. This wonderful novel left me breathless at Eugen Bacon’s imagination and the strength of her craft. I devoured this book in a couple of sittngs; marvelling at the world building, the writng and the […] More