Martians Abroad Is Golden Age Sci-Fi for a New Generation
Give Carrie Vaughn’s Martians Abroad a few pages, and you’ll fall in love its protagonist, Polly Newton, the newest student at Earth’s prestigious Galileo Academy.…
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Dancing in the Fire: An Interview with Ilana C. Myer, author of Last Song Before Night
Upon completing Last Song Before Night, Ilana C. Myer’s terrific 2015 debut novel, I was reminded of another fantasy novelist…
What’s on Your Sci-Fi & Fantasy Bucket List?
Science fiction and fantasy is a vast, deep ocean. No matter how big your vessel, you’re never going explore it all; you…
Leading the Charge: Kameron Hurley’s Geek Feminist Revolution
Do you feel it? There is a tremor in the force. Science fiction and fantasy are steeped in traditions far older…
The Sorcerer’s Daughter Is One of the Best Shannara Books Ever
The Sorcerer’s Daughter marks the culmination of Terry Brooks’ latest Shannara trilogy, The Defenders of Shannara, which began in 2014 with The…
Forest of Memory Is a Pristinely Imperfect Sci-Fi Fable
A sci-fi fable set in the Pacific Northwest of the near future, Mary Robinette Kowal’s Forest of Memory is ostensibly the account of a digitally…
The Spider’s War Completes an Epic Fantasy Series for the Ages
You don’t have to travel far through online fandom to find readers poking fun at popular epic fantasy series that often…
Summon the Magic of The Shannara Chronicles
J.R.R. Tolkien might have introduced me to fantasy, and Terry Brooks made me fall in love with the genre’s possibility for wonder…
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…
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…
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 Archives (the books best…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
