Alywn Hamilton’s debut novel, Rebel of the Sands, combines a hardbitten western setting and hardboiled narrative style with eastern myth and a restrictive, patriarchal social structure. Heroine Amani is an orphan forced to live in her brutal uncle’s home, in a tiny, dusty town without prospects. But she’s also a brilliant sharpshooter who dreams of using her talents […]
These days, I find it absurdly easy to slip into despair. (Don’t worry, this post is going to be fun, I promise.) It’s all too common to turn on the news or look at Twitter and then spend the rest of the day staring into the abyss, suffering from a kind of horrified paralysis. (I mean it, this is […]
[ean6]Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede A bored princess goes off to live with a dragon and they have adventures. One, there’s there’s a dragon and that’s always a good thing in a graphic adaptation and, two, there’s the bunny rabbit who keeps changing into something different, and, three, it’s just a great story […]
It takes a lot of books to make a book, and you can safely bet your favorite fantasy author grew up on a steady diet of other authors’ incredible words and worlds. We asked the writers behind 17 of our most anticipated fantasy books to hit shelves January through June to book chat a fantasy […]
There’s a scene in Game of Thrones (I’m talking the television show), an unrelentingly dark fantasy epic, in which a disgraced knight enters a roadside inn demanding chicken. When he’s denied his meat, he declares he will eat every f*****g chicken. Then he kills everyone in the room. It’s hilarious. I prefer fantasy when it […]