…M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends) FIRST NOVEL The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic, Emily Croy Barker (Dorman) The Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney (Roc) Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer) The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper) NOVELLA “Wakulla Springs”, Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13) “Black Helicopters”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) “The Princess and…
…ery time I go back to it (even to check spelling), it draws me in again. I really can’t recommend it highly enough. Liz Bourke Superbly depicted with magnificent economy… understated but intense… beautifully realised. This author’s novellas are masterclasses in storytelling, worldbuilding and imagination packed into small spaces. Hugely recommended. KJ Charles I always love a good re-imagining of my favourite fairy tale, and this one is exceptiona…
A story with bones and thorns and ghosts, and the choices we make, and how they can haunt us past death and rebirth. The thorns outside Anh Thảo’s mansion glistened, glinting a metallic silver under the sunlight. Thorns were for disgraced imperial blood, disgraced high officials, and Anh Thảo had been neither of those things, back when Chiêu had still been in the world, when she’d been the general of the West Flank—the darling of the capital, the…
A story about monasteries, history and destiny in the midst of world devastation. The entire time they were walking towards the Dragon Stairs, Giền said nothing. She merely changed shape in Thanh Lan’s arms–not growing heavier and heavier, which Thanh Lan could have understood, but by turns lighter and heavier, her shape shimmering between ten thousand different ones: a dragon, a Maw soldier–a faceless, helmed countenance with the Maw’s spiral em…
…A story about memory and war and transfers of memories between shifts (and statistics!)….
…Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances The Dominion of the Fallen Reading Order (Complete) 0.2. “Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship” | 0.5. “In Morningstar’s Shadow” | 0.6. “Against the Encroaching Darkness” | 0.7. “The Death of Aiguillon” | 0.8 “Court of Birth, Court of Strength” | 0.9. “The House, in Winter” | Book 1. The House of Shattered Wings | 1.5. “Children of Thorns, Children of Water” | Book 2. The House of Binding Thorns | Book 3. The House o…
Going into the mountains had never been easy. Even in Rechan’s first adult years, when the war was slowly burning itself to smouldering embers, every Spring Festival had been a slow migration in armed vehicles, her aunts and uncles frequently stopping in every roadside shop, taking stock of what ambushes or roadblocks might lie ahead. The war might be over–or almost so, the planet largely at peace, the spaceports disgorging a steady stream of Gal…
…e just closed on the gem—she can’t feel its warmth with her gloves, but her daughter’s ghost is just by her side, at the hole in the side of the ship’s hull, blurred and indistinct—when the currents of unreality catch her. Her tether to The Azure Serpent, her only lifeline to the ship, stretches; snaps. And then she’s gone, carried forward into the depths. 2017 Locus Award Finalist….
…in an alternate post-War world, it’s got magic, family, politics, the sweetest gay romance, and bicycle chases! Still time to preorder, by the way: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Macmillan. It’s also filled with food — apples in particular, but other foods as well. Fran Wilde and I sat down (metaphorically) with Chelsea to talk about the book and more. She also answered questions for our partners in crime The Booksmugglers! Chelsea will be at 4th St…
…meron Hurley (A Dribble of Ink 5/20/13) Speculative Fiction 2012: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary, Justin Landon & Jared Shurin, eds. (Jurassic London) Writing Excuses, Season 8, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler & Jordan Sanderson Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, Jeff VanderMeer with Jeremy Zerfoss (Abrams Image) Best Graphic Story (552) ‘‘The Girl Who Loved Doctor W…
