The Inheritance Trilogy (The Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of GodsThe Awakened Kingdom)

Seth Dickinson and Kameron Hurley are the respective authors of The Traitor Baru Cormorant and Empire Ascendant, two of the biggest fantasy releases of the fall, and certainly two of the most fearless when it comes to challenging the tropes of “traditional epic fantasy.” Protagonists of color, explorations of gender, a wide range of sexualities…these are not your dad’s […]

Yesterday, Max Gladstone was nominated for a Best Series Hugo Award for the Craft Sequence, an inventive blend of urban, epic, and weird fantasy set in a future world where magic is real, and governed by a systems of laws and lawyers, politics and politicians, and bureaucracy and red tape. If you never imagined you’d […]

Sometimes they walk among us. Sometimes they empower us. They try to trick us, or don’t care for us, or don’t even notice we’re there. Whatever their agendas, the gods of fantasy literature rarely make characters’ lives any easier. Sometimes, they’re even willing to descend from on high to get their divine hands dirty. Inspired by the […]

In the city of Guerdon, the church bells ring with the cries of long-conquered gods, saints and alchemists wage war in the streets, and armageddon is all but at hand. A trio of misfit thieves is all that stands against a complex network of competing gods and mages—and the destruction they will wreak. To commemorate […]