Opening Up New Worlds: A Conversation About Fantasy in Translation
What if someone wrote one of the best fantasy novels of all time, and there was no way for you…
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Get Your First Look at The Dragon Republic, the Sequel to R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War
In a year of fantastic fantasy debuts, there’s a strong argument to be made that R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War…
Saga’s 10 Greatest Moments, According to Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Since before the publication of its first issue, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga has delivered an experience like…
The 25 Most Important Questions: Revealing The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
Now that he’s wrapped up The Thermis Files trilogy, Neuvel is doing something altogether different. His next book is a provocative…
Read N.K. Jemisin’s Historic Hugo Speech
At WorldCon 76 in San Jose, N.K. Jemisin made history, winning her third consecutive Hugo Award for The Stone Sky,…
The Uncanny Aftereffects of 5 Uncanny Stories
Uncanny Magazine, two-time winner of the Hugo Award, is one of our favorite sources for fantastic sci-fi and fantasy short…
4 Stories with Awesome Autistic Protagonists
Today we announced Ada Hoffman’s forthcoming sci-fi novel The Outside, arriving in 2019 from Angry Robot Books. Because the book’s…
10 Fantasy Books Steeped in the Southern Gothic
Craig DeLouie’s new novel One of Us, out now from Orbit Books, is a dark fantasy tale that plays out…
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins Is the Best Podcast You’ve Ever Read
If you told me three-and-a-half years ago that I would soon become fairly obsessed with a hybrid storytelling-comedy podcast in…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Magic
Francesco Dimitri is considered a master of fantasy in his native Italy. His first novel in English, The Book of…
5 Must-Read George R.R. Martin Books (That Aren’t A Game of Thrones)
Here are five essential George R.R. Martin books with nary a Stark in sight. Back To Top
“Dark” Fantasy Worlds Can Be Inclusive Too
Alex Marshall (also known as Jesse Bullington) is the author of the Crimson Empire epic fantasy trilogy, which sounds like…
The Madness Continues in R.A. Salvatore’s Reckoning of Fallen Gods
If he never published another book, R.A. Salvatore’s name would be legendary among countless fantasy fans for his creation of…
Read Rebecca Roanhorse’s History Making Nebula Awards Speech
On May 20, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rebecca Roanhorse made history. Significantly, Roanhorse’s story is explicitly about her Native identity…
Elizabeth Bear Answers 6 Questions About Her Return to Sci-Fi in Ancestral Night
First up, that cover, designed by Saga Art Director Michael McCartney, which hints at the plot’s multi-dimensional qualities. Take a look…
5 Books That Shaped the Weird Sense of Humor That Gave Us Space Opera
Even though we nominally know where the idea for Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera came from (short answer: Twitter), it’s…
How to Write (and Read) a Good Fight Scene
Writing (and reading) a good fight scene is definitely a skill, even if you have experience with martial arts or…
Read the First Chapter of R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War, the Buzziest Fantasy Debut of 2018
We’ve been itching to read R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War ever since we first got wind of it last summer,…
An Interview with Laytham Ballard: Ex-Rocker, Demon Killer?
(Interview originally published in Wyrd zine October 2009) Night Chords: The Laytham Ballard Interview Five years after walking away from…
Debut Author Rebecca Roanhorse Answers 5 Questions About Her Apocalyptic Native American Fantasy Trail of Lightning
Rebecca Roanhorse wanted to read a fantasy novel in which the heroes and gods were of North American Indigenous origin,…