Fantasy can be a difficult genre for beginners to penetrate, and in a sense, that’s fitting. The foundations of the genre rely on invention and reinvention, pushing boundaries, and infusing the known with the unknown. Where do you even begin when the worlds are unfamiliar (and sprawling), and you can’t fight your way through the […]
The end of 2015 marks the completion of this blog’s first year of existence, and what a year to start with: we can’t remember the last 12-month period that gave us such a strong run of new science fiction and fantasy books, spanning every subgenre on the shelves. Below, we’ve selected 25 of our favorites—these […]
This week’s new releases prove that the gods are crazy, be they literal, imagined, or embodied by the hubris of men who think they know better.
The Library at Mount Char, a fantasy debut by Scott Hawkins, kind of floored me. I don’t say that often. I also don’t often worry about how to talk about a book without giving away what makes it truly special. I have both problems here. First, it wormed into the dark, secret places in my head in just […]