Fantasy
The Amazing Arden and 5 More Fabulous Lady Magicians
I love stories about magic and magicians. (My bio offers a clue why…) One of my favorite novels is Susanna…
10 Reasons We Love Outlander
There are so many reasons to love Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander series, which has been expertly adapted into a gripping television show on Starz and…
Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes Is the Next Must-Read YA Fantasy
“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change…
Get Your Hands on Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses Right Now
In Feyre’s world, fairies are real. But we’re not talking Tinker Bell types: no, the fairies in Sarah J. Maas’s A…
The Alien Other in The Three-Body Problem
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula…
A Foot of Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson next book, Seveneves, is going to be over 1,000 pages, which makes it his seventh book in a row with the potential to break…
Neil Gaiman on Dangerous Fiction, His First Short Story, and Trigger Warning
Neil Gaiman is a remarkably affable fellow. Even a few minutes after finishing signing several hundred books, even several minutes…
5 Reasons Discworld Is the Wildest Place Ever
For a good time, call Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. The books have been the pinnacle of creative fantasy since The…
What to Read Next if You Never Stopped Loving Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown
Like so many readers, I first discovered Robin McKinley’s Newbery Award—winning epic fantasy novel The Hero and the Crown as a teenager. Dragged…
5 Sinister Fictional Languages Best Kept That Way
Need an extra shot of realism in your carefully constructed world? Time to invent a language! Authors have been creating…
Four Reading Recs for the Reluctant Paranormal YA Reader
We get it: you’ve been burned before. On a whim, you picked up a young adult book with a photo of a girl…
Bustiers, Bullets, and Black Magic: Four Urban Fantasy Series You Should Be Reading
Readers of modern urban fantasy novels know the best of the genre are a heady mix of noir, romance, fantasy,…
The 5 Best Fantasy Maps Ever Drawn
Writers and Nigerian princes trying to move millions of dollars out of their country know one absolute truth: If you…
5 Books That Prove This is a Great Fall for Epic Fantasy
It seems you can’t turn around in the bookstore these days without bumping up against a stack of the next…
Robert Jackson Bennett on What Makes a Book an Epic
Across five published novels, Robert Jackson Bennett has made it a point to never write the same book twice. His…
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…
The Magicians Trilogy Will Redefine Your Relationship with Fantasy
Like a lot of kids, there were times in my childhood where I was convinced some grand mistake had been…
7 Book-to-TV Adaptations that Owe Their Success to Game of Thrones
Four years on, I’m still shocked by the massive success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Sure, I expected it to look…