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…
Epic Fantasy
The Dragon’s Legacy Is an Operatic Fantasy Experience in the Making
Deborah Wolf’s The Dragon’s Legacy is the promising start to a breathtaking epic fantasy trilogy in the vein of Ken Liu and…
Red Sister Is a Game of Chess Brought to Bloody, Brilliant Life
Across six novels set in the same brutal, ruthless post-apocalyptic fantasy world, Mark Lawrence proved himself to be a master…
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…
Kings of the Wyld Is Epic Fantasy That Rocks
In his afterword, Kings of the Wyld author Nicholas Eames reveals the original concept behind his story: “What if mercenaries were the…
With Blood Upon the Sand Returns to an Immersive Fantasy Landscape
Bradley P. Beaulieu’s Twelve Kings of Sharahkai was one of the most delightfully vivid and promising fantasy novels of 2015, building…
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…
The Last Sacrifice Is a First Among Gritty, Grimdark Fantasy Books
After having briefly stepped away from the sword-swinging comfort of the humongous epic fantasy genre, I’m back in it, with a…
The Cold Eye Continues an Epic Journey into the Devil’s West
The best fantasy books can build worlds with such exquisite precision, you wish you could crawl inside of of them…
Catching Up with Ken Liu and The Dandelion Dynasty
Ken Liu is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. But you already knew…
The Mountain of Kept Memory Is High Fantasy Worth Remembering
A genre, in its simplest form, is an amalgamation of time-tested tropes, trusted throughout the ages to deliver a good…
The Burning Isle Is a Grimdark Fantasy with Graphic Novel Flair
High fantasy has a tendency to ponder, probe, and observe, and record the results in great detail, and at great length.…
Kai Ashante Wilson’s A Taste of Honey Is the Future of Fantasy
Clearly no one told Kai Ashante Wilson, who won acclaim last year for the inventive novella The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, how…
20 Shocking Moments from Two Decades of A Song of Ice and Fire, Ranked
It began as a book, as all the best things do. It was a good book, of noble birth, penned…
After the War, Winning the Peace in Ken Liu’s The Wall of Storms
“We have won the war, and not without pain, but now we must win the peace, and that will perhaps…
The 14 Most Brazen Barbarians in Fantasy
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