Hazards of Time Travel Follows a Girl’s Harrowing Journey from the Future to the Past
Legendarily prolific, multi-award winning author Joyce Carol Oates hasn’t left too many genre stones unturned in her long career, but…
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The Strata of a Writer: N.K. Jemisin’s How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?
N.K. Jemisin has had a helluva year. In August, she became the first novelist to pick up three Hugo awards…
Peter S. Beagle’s Masterpiece Takes Shape in The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey
Fifty years ago, Peter S. Beagle’s second novel, The Last Unicorn, was published, eight years after he won acclaim as…
An Interdimensional Murder Mystery with Librarians: Genevieve Cogman’s The Mortal Word
“And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and…
Reality and Memory Collide in Lavie Tidhar’s Unholy Land
In Lavie Tidhar’s new novel Unholy Land, a suspiciously similarly named pulp writer Liro Tirosh returns to his homeland of Palestina,…
Join a Magical Bomb Squad in The City of Broken Magic
Laura Kramer is an apprentice Sweeper in Amicae, a city that runs on magic, and the only apprentice to a…
Empire of Sand Is an Epic and Intimate Fantasy Debut
In her debut novel Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri draws on the history of India’s Mughal Empire to create a…
In Vita Nostra, the Study of Magic is Scientific, Sinister, and Deeply Strange
Admission into a magical school is the starting point for many a paranormal bildungsroman. Harry Potter is visited by a…
Someone Like Me Takes an Honest Approach to Psychological Horror
As Liz weathers another assault by her abusive husband Marc, something seems to take control of her body, defending her…
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Collide at the End of the World in Mage Against the Machine
When you pick up a book billed as Harry Potter meets The Terminator, you’d best be prepared to embark on…
Witness the Deadly Aftermath of Victory in The Monster Baru Cormorant
[Editor’s note: This review includes major spoilers for The Traitor Baru Cormorant.] When last we saw Baru Cormorant, she was…
Gorgeous, Definitive, Essential: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
The bitter, of course, is that Le Guin died in January 2018, albeit at the respectable age of 88. The…
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon Has a Lot to Say About Life on Earth
It’s a science fiction tradition so reliable, you can all but set your watch by it: another year, another Kim…
Zero Sum Game Is a Sci-Fi Thrill Ride… About Math
It’s rare for an author to maintain the sort of balancing act S. L. Huang pulls off with apparent ease…
I Am Behind You Brings Disturbing Existential Horror into the Daylight
Four families on holiday at a campground wake up one morning to find the world around them replaced by an…
The Sisters of the Winter Wood Is a Transformative Fairy Tale
While I enjoy fairy tales set in the vagueness of the long ago and faraway, I truly love when they…
An Old Man’s Stories Unmake a Nation in A Conspiracy of Truths
Alexandra Rowland’s A Conspiracy of Truths begins with a chaotic courtroom scene: an old man known only as Chant is…
Street Freaks Is the Souped-Up Sci-Fi Adventure We Never Expected from Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks has an epically long history in epic fantasy. Alongside works from Katherine Kurtz and Stephen R. Donaldson, his…
Taking Back the Streets: Peter McLean’s Priest of Bones
After the war, we came home. Sixty-five thousand battle-shocked, trained killers came home to no jobs, no food, and the…
Time’s Children Is a Time Travel Fantasy with a Magical Twist
In Time’s Children, D.B. Jackson (Thieftaker, and many more novels written under the name David B. Coe) accomplishes the feat…