Naturally, we’ve been excited to see what the partnership of Wolfe & Parisien has in store for us next… and now we know. Below, we’ve provided a first look at the cover, with art by Serena Malyon and design by Michael McCartney, as well the complete lineup of contributing authors. But first, here’s the official […]
Three years after her last novel left fairy tale conventions, well, Uprooted, Naomi Novik returns with a spiritual successor, Spinning Silver, another fantasy inspired by age-old legends. This is not a sequel, nor is it set in the same world as Uprooted; it is a sister book similarly grounded in Slavic folklore and culture. The book opens on Miryem, the […]
Short stories have always occupied a singular status in the literary world, and are often considered at a remove from novels in terms of conception, structure, and execution. But in sci-fi and fantasy, short stories are also often literary icebergs—tales with so many ideas hiding unseen below the surface that their authors later adapted the […]
Of all the anthologies I’ve read, Robots Vs.Fairies might be the most whimsical in its introduction and the most inventive in terms of subject matter.
If you pay attention to things like the Hugo and Nebula awards or lists of the best sci-fi and fantasy books of the year, you know the names Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. The celebrated authors of novels (Max’s six-books-and-counting Craft Sequence was recently nominated for the inaugural Best Series Hugo) and short stories (Amal’s […]