Amid epic battles and dazzling spells, the best fantasy is often about people. In some novels the protagonists are so complex, their development so intense, that they take over the story and make us ache in every nerve ending when bad things happen to them. We almost become the character as we’re reading, so invested […]
We’ve recently gotten the bad news straight from George R.R. Martin himself: winter won’t be coming, at least, not until well after Game of Thrones‘ sixth season premieres this April. Martin’s been working on The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, since 2011, but the television adaptation charged through five books’ worth of material […]
And speaking of covers, since then, we’ve also brought you your first of Çeda herself on the cover of book two, With Blood Upon the Sand, and today, we’re sharing the artwork that will adorn Beneath the Twisted Trees, created by Micah Epstein. Check it out below the official summary, and then keep reading for a […]
When I think of the evolution of secondary world fantasy through the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, familiar names come to mind: Terry Brooks. Katherine Kurtz. Stephen R. Donaldson. Raymond E. Feist. Robin Hobb. Anne McCaffrey. George R.R. Martin. J.K. Rowling. Each of these authors impacted fantasy in ways that still ripple through the genre, influencing new authors who in turn reshape the genre […]
Epic fantasy fans are used to waiting for years to return to their favorite worlds—the wait for the sixth volume in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has practically become an Internet meme. When Tad Williams left Osten Ard in 1993 with the conclusion of his influential Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, […]