It’s a mystery why some very successful British SF/F authors never quite seem able to make the leap to bookshelves across the pond, but this week, U.S. readers can finally pick up the debut novel from on the the U.K.’s most exciting new voices in genre writing, not to mention a trilogy of fairytale retellings […]
The irrepressible Lady Trent returns! Voyage of the Basilisk is the third volume of now world-famous scientist Isabella Camherst’s memoirs of her adventures in her scientific study of dragons (writings “discovered” by author Marie Brennan). Like the first two volumes, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, it recounts one of her perilous expeditions, and though it could be […]
Two months into 2015, and already our hopes dashed: The authors of the two biggest fantasy series running, George R.R. Martin and Patrick Rothfuss, have made it pretty clear that we won’t be seeing the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire or the third installment of The Kingkiller Chronicles (respectively) until we’ve […]
I have a number of friends who refuse to begin reading a series until it’s completed. Though I don’t share their compunction, I get it: it’s a total drag to get x number of books into a series and be left hanging, whether by regular intervals between books, delays due to the vagaries of writing schedules, […]
