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[ad_1] In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families – and we want to send you a copy! Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. Cariad Corcoran … Read more

[ad_1] Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don’t … Read more

[ad_1] Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books always seemed like one of those fantasy series that would never see an adaptation. With more than 20 books spanning over 200 years, with the central protagonists growing from teenagers to almost middle age, it seemed like too epic of an undertaking. But isn’t that the case for all the … Read more

[ad_1] A brand-new collection of Chinese speculative fiction is coming out next year! Two Lines Press has announced a new book series of translated works, and the very first entry is That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction.  According to a press release, each edition of Calico is curated around a “particular theme, region, language, historical … Read more

[ad_1] Magic and art, myth and creativity. Part of why they go so beautifully together in stories is because it’s often hard to tell the difference. Poet or wizard? Musician or changeling? Spell or song? We don’t properly know where creativity comes from, so we revere it and distrust it in equal measure. That’s the … Read more

[ad_1] I know there have been dozens of Three Musketeers movies made, but have you ever read the book? Because I have to tell you, that book is quite delightfully, playfully, incredibly gay. I mean, I didn’t figure out my queer identity until adulthood, but that didn’t stop me from crushing on female heroines like … Read more

[ad_1] Books that span decades offer readers deep insight into characters’ life stories—over time, we get to witness their motivations, ups and downs, family dynamics, and, more often than not, well-kept secrets. Even stories that seem fairly calm on the surface can reveal hidden secrets and unexpected twists the deeper you go. These seven works … Read more

[ad_1] I was at home all of October; it included Scintillation which meant lots of friends were here for a few days, but also there was a week of being laid up doing nothing but reading, and at the very end I headed to Nantes for Utopiales. I read 27 books, or I guess 28 … Read more

[ad_1] This week’s episode of Watchmen, She Was Killed By Space Junk, digs deeper into the legacy of the heroes and villains of Watchmen’s timeline. We get a little bit more of Angela Abar’s search for the truth, but we mostly get a whole lot of Laurie Blake (who has complex feelings about superheroes), and … Read more

[ad_1] The winners for the 2019 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, including Lifetime Achievement recipients Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Zipes. Congrats to the finalists and winners, especially our own publisher Irene Gallo, for editing Worlds Seen In Passing: 10 Years of Tor.com Short Fiction, the winner of the Best Anthology award! The awards ceremony … Read more