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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) 3.58 avg rating — 426 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) 4.02 avg rating — 183 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) 3.98 avg rating — 147 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) 3.97 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2018	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) 3.82 avg rating — 92 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) 4.15 avg rating — 80 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 5, October 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 60 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 4, July 2015 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard S. Ford (Goodreads Author), Matthew Ward (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 56 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 10, January 2017 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anthony Ryan (Goodreads Author), Jesse Bullington (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2017 — 2 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, Peter Orullian (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 47 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

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Adrian Collins and 1 other person liked Kaustubh Dudhane's review of Grimdark Magazine Issue #44: " *"Ah. The small talk. Unlike the laws of physics, the laws that govern small talk are constant everywhere in the universe."* Another good set of collection of stories and non-fiction pieces but there had been better in some of the earlier issues. Ho" Read more of this review »
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Adrian Collins and 1 other person liked Nicole Pardus's review of The Scour (Empire of the Wolf, #0.5): "Richard Swan does it again. This perfectly contained little novella reads like a dark, fantasy-soaked episode of Law & Order—but instead of Benson and Stabler, we’ve got the best duo of all time: Vonvalt and Bressinger. The boys are back, and I could" Read more of this review »
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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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Adrian Collins rated a book it was amazing The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3) by Richard Swan (Goodreads Author)	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
Review is online here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/revi... In The Trials of Empire by Richard Swan, book three of The Empire of the Wolf trilogy, we finally find out what is driving Bartholomew Claver to such great evil. We see the dark fate of S ...more
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Having loved the movies, but never read an Aliens book before, I was so excited when Australian author T.R. Napper announced the impending release of Aliens: Bishop. From his previous books, 36 Streets and Neon Leviathan I knew that Napper’s history ...more
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“There was no black and white viewpoint, just seven billion shades of grey in between.”
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