Be Better Than Yesterday: Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
The reigning Best New Writer turns in a Star Wars novel
Worth Fighting For: The Killing Light by Myke Cole
In this final volume of his epic fantasy trilogy, Cole brings us a story that simultaneously celebrates the elements of grimdark fiction that were a staple of fantasy in the early 2000s, while also working to interrogate them rigorously.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah
The two biggest draws for the first book in Shah’s new series are setting and characters. Shah is a remarkable worldbuilder, with a keen sense of when and how much information to parcel out. Underwater London is both familiar and fantastical
In Space, No One Can Hear You Pray: Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
Power is a helluva thing. Those who have it will do anything to keep it, and those who want it will do everything to take it.
John Crowley’s And Go Like This Was Worth the Wait
Crowley readers often become Crowley completists. And Go Like This will satisfy the high expectations of Crowley’s devoted readers
Non-Spoiler Review of Brandon Sanderson’s Starsight
Last year, Brandon Sanderson launched readers into a new world with Skyward, the story of Spensa (callsign: Spin), M-Bot, and the Defiant Defense Force (DDF). On November 26, everyone will have the chance to find out where the next stage of Spensa’s journey will take us in the highly anticipated sequel, Starsight.
Of Bees & Books: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Starless Sea is a love story, an epic love letter to the art of storytelling and to the power of stories.
The Dark, Soulwalking Fantasy of Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland
The asexual and specific transgender experiences explored in this novel are not mine, but they are valid. As Strickland has mentioned themself, some readers may find the renderings of these experiences uncomfortable, and some may find them helpful and vindicating.
The Mundane and the Monstrous: Inside Benjamin Percy’s Suicide Woods
“Heart of a Bear,” is arguably the strangest tale in a collection abounding with bizarre moments.
In Cixin Liu’s Supernova Era, Kids Inherit the Earth (for Better or Worse)
Do all children who survive an apocalypse have to become creepy kids?
Far Apart, Close By: Homesick by Nino Cipri
The original novella, “Before We Disperse Like Star Stuff,” delves into questions of archeology, preservation, respect for the land and for remains, and cultural appropriation versus education versus access.
The Goddesses Are the Future: The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
“A demoness is what men call a goddess they cannot control.”
A Jolt of Power: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House is a story about power—who has it and who wants it.
Adding Complexity to Pulp: The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl is the latest of Theodora Goss’ 19th-century-pulp-inspired volumes
My Gift Was Memory: On Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer
With The Water Dancer, Coates’s first full-length novel, a story about slavery and a superpower, we pay witness to a writer unchained.
Science Fantasy in SPAAAACE: K Eason’s How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multivers takes a classic fantasy script—of a royal daughter being given gifts by Faeries and the consequences thereof–and upends it right from the get go
Robert Jordan’s Warrior of the Altaii: Non-SpoilerReview
Warrior of the Altaii was a novel Robert Jordan wrote around 1977 but was never published in his lifetime
Spooks, Haunts, and the Patriarchy in Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
Women have written a lot of horror; this new book shows you that women have written a LOT or horror
Enough of Their Civilization: Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie
Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women is a collection of stories focusing on female shapeshifters in European myths and fairy tales
Unleash the Horror of The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
In a world of wickedness and cruelty, a monster is born.
The Origin Story We’ve Been Waiting For: The Rise of Kyoshi
The authors inhabit Kyoshi’s inner world so seamlessly that all of her actions and development make sense, including her relationship to love. I loved that her queerness was treated as a normal part of her…
Joe Abercrombie’s A Little Hatred: A Book at War With Its Past
What must it feel like to live in your own legend?
Redemption, Remaking, and Revolution: Natalie C. Parker’s Steel Tide
Steel Tide builds on the successes of Seafire, deepening characters and emotions, hoisting the stakes sky-high.
The Deconstruction of Falling Action: Alexandra Rowland’s A Choir of Lies
Not a tremendous amount of magic, but oh so clearly a secondary world that is aware of its parts.
Lore Over Love: The Resurrectionist of Caligo by Wendy Trimboli and Alicia Zaloga
The Resurrectionist of Caligo plays with genre in an intriguing and clever way. There are horror elements mixed with fantasy, colonial critique, and class commentary, all blended into a book that is a pleasure to read.
Myths & More: The Mythic Dream, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien
New myths and old, a new anthology explores both
A Hook Into an Eye: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
A review of the sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale
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