Seth Dickinson and Kameron Hurley are the respective authors of The Traitor Baru Cormorant and Empire Ascendant, two of the biggest fantasy releases of the fall, and certainly two of the most fearless when it comes to challenging the tropes of “traditional epic fantasy.” Protagonists of color, explorations of gender, a wide range of sexualities…these are not your dad’s […]
When Mad Max: Fury Road opened, pretty much everyone agreed it was one of the best films of the year, and a new classic of the post-apocalyptic genre. Everyone, that is, save for a subset of dudes from one of the internet’s darkest corners, who lash out at anything that suggests that women can be just as […]
You wouldn’t peg Kameron Hurley as someone who came late to reading. She’s the author of four acclaimed novels, including new epic fantasy The Mirror Empire, which has been praised for its complexity and daring. Her sci-fi debut, God’s War, was shortlisted for the Nebula, British Science-Fiction Association, and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and she recently […]
This roundup of August’s most exciting sci-fi and fantasy releases features the latest installments of your favorite ongoing series, a few that will kick off your next obsession, and one with a new fictional disease scary enough that you won’t leave your house for a month (or at least until you’ve finished reading it). The […]
Kameron Hurley’s writing career has been both marked by variety, and unified in its mission. Across a varied bibliography—a gritty sci-fi noir with tech that feels like magic (God’s War); a sprawling, cross-genre multi-verse fantasy (The Mirror Empire); a gory, feminist spin on space opera tropes (last year’s The Stars Are Legion); a killer collection of […]