Meet Your Favorite Depressed A.I. Since Marvin in All Systems Red
Sarcastic sentience, the intricacies of individuality, and the sliding scale of humanity: all are on full display in Martha Wells new…
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City of Miracles Is the Powerful Ending to a Truly Divine Fantasy Trilogy
Sigurd je Harkvaldsson has been in hiding for 13 years, waiting on word from his good friend Shara Komayd, once Prime Minister…
Skullsworn Provides an Irresistible Entry Point to a Stunning Epic
Brian Staveley’s The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne trilogy, which concluded last year, was a remarkably complete, compelling specimen of…
The House of Binding Thorns Brings a Ruined Fantasy Paris to Vivid Life
Aliette de Bodard’s The House of Shattered Wings introduced a ruined fantasy world, one of corrupted beauty, populated with warring houses, outcast…
Chuck Wendig on Breaking Hearts and Cheating Death with Miriam Black
Chuck Wendig is, by this point, a genre author who needs no introduction. He’s put his signature, staccato-prose stamp on…
How to Build a Future History: Ada Palmer Discusses the Terra Ignota Series
We can’t say enough good things about Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series, which began with Too Like the Lightning, a…
A Closed and Common Orbit Is Space Opera of the Heart
To risk the sci-fi cliché. Becky Chambers zoomed like a rocket into the genre scene a few years back with…
Seven Surrenders Is an Unparalleled Work of Future History
Last year, Ada Palmer’s baroque science fantasy Too Like The Lightning lived up to its title, flashing onto many best-of-the-year lists with…
Thunderbird Steers Urban Fantasy into Stranger Territory
It’s been a minute since we’ve had a chance to spend time with Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black, the cigarette-smoking, liquor-swilling, foul-mouthed…
Cold Counsel Shows Us a Side of Monsters You’ll Never See in Tolkien
Cold Counsel, is unlike anything you’ve read before; it bears trappings of the familiar, but the breath of fresh air. The current…
Crossroads of Canopy Is a Debut Fantasy That Climbs to Great Heights
Crossroads of Canopy, the debut fantasy of Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning Australian author Thoraiya Dyer. throws us right into the…
Amberlough Finds Solace in Art in a Time of Tyranny
The drink in your hand is bright, and goes down like a dream. People flit around you in the dark…
In The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley Transforms Space Opera into a Scream of Rage
Book reviews are hardly immune from hyperbole. Despite my attempts at restraint, when I really love something, I can become quite… animated. Dear…
Bookburners: Season One Is a Storytelling Experiment as Addictive as Your Favorite TV Show
It’s one of those ideas that, in hindsight, seems inevitable It works so well in television; why wouldn’t it work in the…
8 Truly Transporting Portal Fantasy Novels
The portal fantasy: a cornerstone of the genre, and a symbol of all the beauty and strangeness and heartbreak and triumph…
The 5 Most Hamilton Moments in The Name of the Wind
In the nerdiest version of “Break the Internet” yet, we found out last week that Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame will be…
The Steven Universe Library
Cartoon Network’s critically acclaimed, Tumblr beloved series Steven Universe may seem like simple superhero wish fulfillment on the surface, but underneath, it’s teeming…