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	Evil is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Mark Alder (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 1, October 2014 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author), Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King Must Fall by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Sarah Chorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knee-Deep in Grit: Two Bloody Years of Grimdark Fiction by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 2, January 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeremy Szal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Richard K. Morgan (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 3, April 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), R. Scott Bakker, Luke Scull (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 4, July 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard S. Ford (Goodreads Author), Matthew Ward (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 5, October 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 6, January 2016 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael R. Fletcher (Goodreads Author), Peter Orullian (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine, Issue 10, January 2017 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anthony Ryan (Goodreads Author), Jesse Bullington (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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REVIEW: The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig

Last Updated on September 6, 2026

The fact that I enjoyed The Knight and the Moth as much as I did was already a huge unexpected surprise for me considering I did not love Rachel Gillig’s One Dark Window, so I went into The Knave and the Moon very cautiously optimistic, desperately hoping that it would maintain the quality of the first book and actually deliver on all that potential. And honestly,

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Adrian Collins wrote a new blog post REVIEW: The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig Last Updated on September 6, 2026The fact that I enjoyed The Knight and the Moth as much as I did was already a huge unexpected surprise for me consid Read more of this blog post »
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Adrian Collins and 63 other people liked Mark Lawrence's review of The Soft Touch: " This is described as a novella - whether it's technically a novella (fewer than 40,000 words) or just a short book, I don't know. I feel it must be nearly a book... Anyway, I was a big fan of the Low Town trilogy. I think you could read this on its o" Read more of this review »
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Adrian Collins and 5 other people liked Jamedi's review of The Soft Touch: "The Soft Touch is a new novella set in the Low Town universe created by Daniel Polansky, published by Grimdark Magazine. A story that takes us a few decades after the end of the trilogy (but it can be enjoyed as a standalone), showing us the return o" Read more of this review »
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Adrian Collins and 3 other people liked Kaustubh Dudhane's review of The Soft Touch: " *"Profanity is for those lacking the wit to attempt originality. Much like violence."* I would like to thank Adrian Collins and his team at Grimdark Magazine for an e-ARC. Although I had Low Town series in my TBR, I didn't know much about the world a" Read more of this review »
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Adrian Collins is now following T.C. Powell Author of The Methuselah Treatment
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Adrian Collins made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please create a series for Grimdark Magazine (quarterly) topic " Hi team, Could you please create a series for Grimdark Magazine, a quarterly ongoing publication. There are 40 issues, and I have linked them below: GdM ...more "
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“There was no black and white viewpoint, just seven billion shades of grey in between.”
― Adrian Collins, Evil is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists

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July/August '17 Group Read

Evil is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists edited by Adrian Collins

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Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

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Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

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Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell

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The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark

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Age of Iron by Angus Watson

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The Grim Company by Luke Scull

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The Mountains Rise by Michael G. Manning

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