Posts by Aidan Moher

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Aidan Moher is the Hugo Award-winning editor and founder of A Dribble of Ink, and the author of Tide of Shadows and Other Stories. He lives on Vancouver Island with his wife and daughter.

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a…City in the Sky! 8 Fantastical Airborne Societies

The sky’s the limit for fantasy novelists looking to explore new vistas for world-building, quite literally in the case of David Daglish’s...

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The Wheel of Time Companion is a Robert Jordan Fan’s Best Friend

When it comes to rich, multi-layered secondary worlds, few offer the depth of Randland, the fan-preferred name for the sprawling continent featured in...

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Shadows of Self is a Gun-Slingin’ Good Time for Mistborn Fans

Many readers discovered Brandon Sanderson through his work completing Robert Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time, or maybe via the bestselling Stormlight...

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Brandon Sanderson Is the Hardest-Working Man in Fantasy

You don’t have to rack your brain to come up with the names of authors who face heated criticism for the length of time it takes them to produce the...

my heart is a fish

Ancillary Mercy Is the Stunning Conclusion to a New Classic SF Trilogy

If you’ve been paying attention to science fiction over the past two years, you know Ann Leckie’s name. She’s quickly become one of the...

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Welcome to Golarion—Enter the World of the Pathfinder Tales

Earlier this year, I was jonesing for some ’80-style sword and sorcery. You know the type: big on magic, adventure, and mile-a-minute plotting....

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Throwback Thursday: Cordelia’s Honor is Thrilling, Intelligent SF from a Genre Grandmaster

Every reader has a bucket list—oft-recommended writers you keep hearing about, whose books sound absolutely perfect, who, for some reason, you never...

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All the Birds in the Sky Is a Gorgeous Tale of Love and the Apocalypse

For years, Charlie Jane Anders has been worming her way into the hearts of genre readers through insightful commentary on science fiction and fantasy as...

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An SF/F Book for Every Gamer

Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One hit the scene in 2011 like a meteorite. Its near-future dystopian plot impressed nostalgic Gen Yers with copious...

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