This column started out on the FT website with five appearances back in 2002, before moving to the magazine from 2007 to earlier this year; now it’s back again. As with its print incarnation I’ll aim to keep it roughly quarterly, but no promises. And I’ll still be reviewing the occasional SF&F novel in the pages of FT itself: look out for Félix J Palma’s fascinating time-travel novel The Map of Time in FT279.


I’ve said before that life’s too short for all those fat fantasy trilogies – but every rule has its exceptions. In my case these are Robin Hobb and Jacqueline Carey.