Earlier this year, I was jonesing for some ’80-style sword and sorcery. You know the type: big on magic, adventure, and mile-a-minute plotting. Elves, dwarves, fireball-slingin’ sorcerers, and every other fantasy trope in the rulebook. It’s a bit of a dying art form in the 21st century—except when it come to the lines of tie-in novels that […]
Tim Pratt has written just about every kind of novel you can cram into the sci-fi and fantasy genres, from weird western (The Strange Adventures of Ranger Girl) to epic fantasy (four delightful Pathfinder novels), but he never gives you quite what you’re expecting—in a good way (The Constantine Affliction—in which title malady causes upheaval […]