From Australia with Love: Trudi Canavan’s Millennium’s Rule Trilogy is Fantasy Gold
Over the last few decades, Australian-born writers have filled the bookshelves with exceptional fantasy sagas: Sara Douglass’ epic Wayfarer Redemption…
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4 Simple Reasons to Read Laurell K. Hamilton’s Dead Ice
If our revealing interview with Laurell K. Hamilton a few weeks ago wasn’t enough to convince you to read Dead Ice—the…
The Gospel According to Anita Blake: A Conversation with Laurell K. Hamilton
It’s hard to believe that the soon-to-be-released Dead Ice (June 9) is the 24th installment of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake…
Brimstone and Leather: A Eulogy for Kim Harrison’s Hollows Saga
After 13 best-selling novels that have revitalized the landscape of genre fiction, Kim Harrison’s Hollows series—which features lovable witch and…
5 Reasons to Read Terry Brooks’ The High Druid’s Blade
Comparable in size and scope to Tolkien’s Middle-earth, Feist’s Midkemia, and Silverberg’s Majipoor, Terry Brooks’ Shannara is among the most…
Five Plum Reasons to Read Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
It’s hard to believe that it has been 20 years since Janet Evanovich’s first Stephanie Plum novel was released (One…
No Going Back: An Exclusive Interview with Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell K. Hamilton’s work over the last 21 years has played an integral role in reshaping the genre fiction landscape.…
5 Reasons You Should Read Charlaine Harris’s Midnight Crossroad, Out Today
Charlaine Harris is an icon. She’s found success writing mysteries (the Aurora Teagarden series), gothic horror (Sweet and Deadly), and…
Welcome to Midnight: An Exclusive Interview with Charlaine Harris
It’s been a year since Charlaine Harris concluded her phenomenally popular Southern Vampire (aka, Sookie Stackhouse) saga. It was a…
Five Reasons You Should Read Kim Harrison’s The Undead Pool
Kim Harrison’s beloved Hollows series is drawing to a close, with just one installment to go since the recent release…
Four Must-Read Science Fiction Debuts
2014 has kicked off with some extraordinarily entertaining sci-fi debuts! If you’re a fan looking for some exciting new voices…
5 Science Fiction Predictions We Wish Had Come True
When it comes to predicting technological breakthroughs, science fiction writers can be absolute visionaries. From the electrically powered submarine in…
An Interview with Ransom Riggs, Author of the Miss Peregrine Series
The phenomenon that was Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children—a dark and quirky debut novel by Ransom Riggs about…
5 Books To (Pretend to) Read When You Want to Be Left Alone
We’ve all been there: You’re sitting on the subway, in a bookstore, or on a park bench, minding your own…
Five Reasons You Should Read Pierce Brown’s Red Rising
Almost 20 years of reviewing genre fiction has transformed me into a skeptic. Every time I read a press release…
The Queen of Steampunk Speaks: An Interview with Cherie Priest
Steampunk experienced a glorious rebirth around 2009, in large part because of the unparalleled commercial and critical success of Cherie…
Revisiting Flowers in the Attic 35 Years Later
With its much-hyped television movie adaptation airing tomorrow on Lifetime, I was inspired recently to reread Flowers in the Attic, among…
The Most Anticipated Sci-fi and Fantasy Releases of 2014
2014 has the potential to be a landmark year for science fiction/fantasy, with highly anticipated installments of elite series scheduled…
5 End of the World Reads
In keeping with the season, I—the agoraphobic bibliophile—was recently forced to leave the friendly confines of my home to travel…