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The Sherlock Coloring Book is a Three-Crayon Problem!
Adult coloring books are all the rage right now. They’re an elegant way to relive one of your favorite childhood activities. They’re a Zen activity to do while watching Netflix. And they’re a fun way...
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Cover Reveal for Beth Cato’s Breath of Earth
We’re pleased to share the cover for Beth Cato’s Breath of Earth, designed by Richard Aquan and illustrated by Gene Mollica. For this alternate history fantasy (coming August 23 from Harper Voyager),...
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Taraji P. Henson to Star in Untold Story of NASA’s Black Female Mathematicians
Taraji P. Henson (who is killing it on Empire as Cookie Lyon) has signed on to star in director Ted Melfi’s (St. Vincent) adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The Story of the...
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Cthulhu Gon’ Slay: Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country is anthology-esque, a book of intertwining short stories about the spirited Letitia, brainy Hippolyta, restless Ruby, geeky Horace, determined Atticus, dedicated George,...
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Dorothy Must Die Prize Pack Sweepstakes!
The third book in Danielle Paige’s Dorothy Must Die series, Yellow Brick War, is out now from HarperCollins—and we want to sent you a set of the whole trilogy! In this third book in the New York Times...
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Funpocalypse: The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey
One day, a long time ago, God decided to destroy the world. Not everyone thought that was an especially good idea, but when God sends a Flood there isn’t much time for disagreement. Fortunately for us...
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Ashes to Ashes: The Fireman by Joe Hill
Unlike some, I have a soft spot for Heart-Shaped Box, and a lot of love for Horns, but even I’d agree that NOS4A2 is Joe Hill’s strongest novel—not least, I believe, because it’s also his longest. The...
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The Joy of the Journey: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Self-published in the wake of a successful Kickstarter campaign before being picked up by a traditional genre fiction imprint, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet makes its move into the mainstream...
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One Day at a Time: This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab
A girl who wants to be a monster and a monster who wants to be a boy learn that you can’t always get what you want in This Savage Song, a refreshingly unromantic urban fantasy bolstered by a...
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Sony Options Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song for Film
Less than a month after its publication, Victoria Schwab’s New York Times-bestselling young adult urban fantasy This Savage Song has been optioned for film by Sony. The first installment in Schwab’s...
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Sing Your Own Special Song: Aerie by Maria Dahvana Headley
Aerie picks up a year after Magonia. Aza Ray is alive, though hiding in the body of someone new, pretending to be someone else. She’s been to Magonia and back – she knows now who she is, and what she’s...
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Nature Bites Back: The Queen of Blood, by Sarah Beth Durst
Autumn only ever helps me forget the death of the earth. As green withers to brown and wind sharpens into something like winter, it’s easy to think of the dying earth as an annual ritual rather than a...
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Same Old Kingdom: Goldenhand by Garth Nix
Garth Nix has had a long career as a writer of Young Adult novels, and one that has deservedly won him many plaudits. His “Old Kingdom” novels have many adherents, particular among SFF readers....
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To Hell and Back: Lost Gods by Brom
Recently released from jail after a stint on drug charges, Chet Moran is determined to turn his life around, starting with reconciling with his pregnant girlfriend, Trish. Her father has forbidden...
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Love Actually: Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
“Whatever you do, don’t give away that ending,” demands the marketing materials attached to review copies of Sarah Pinborough’s new book. And I won’t—I wouldn’t have even in lieu of the publisher’s...
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Vikings and Bad Life Choices: The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker
The Half-Drowned King, Linnea Hartsuyker’s debut novel from HarperCollins, is neither fantasy nor science fiction. Well, it might edge its way into fantasy, if one counts a single drowning vision as a...
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No Thinking Thing: Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
C. Robert Cargill’s first novel since the darkly delightful Dreams and Shadows duology is an intimate epic that plays outs like War for the Planet of the Apes with machines instead of monkeys. A...
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Amazon Studios to Adapt The Lord of the Rings for Television
Update: Amazon Studios has officially acquired global TV rights to the Lord of the Rings franchise. The multi-season epic fantasy TV series will be produced at Amazon Studios with the Tolkien Estate...
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Gondolin to Be Published as a Standalone for the...
HarperCollins UK announced today that it would publish The Fall of Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien’s tale documenting the rise of a great but hidden Elven kingdom and its terrible fall, for the first time as...
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Linnea Hartsuyker’s Golden Wolf Saga Sweepstakes!
The Sea Queen, the sequel to Linnea Hartsuyker’s The Half-Drowned King, is available August 14th from Harper—and to celebrate, we want to send you a copy of each book! Six years after The Half-Drowned...
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Here and Now and Then
To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when… Mike Chen’s genre-bending debut, Here and Now and Then offers an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father’s heart and its capacity to stretch...
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Five Books That Deal with What Comes after World-Changing Shenanigans
I love a good adventure. I love the stories about epic destinies and quests, of those happy few standing against all odds in the face of pure evil and then going home to live in the new world that they...
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Five Genre-Bending Young Adult Books
“Pick a genre,” they said. “Horror. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Romance. Crime. Thriller. What interests you most?” I was fifteen, and I could no longer hang out in the children’s section of the...
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Solitary Struggles in a World on Fire: The End of the Ocean, by Maja Lunde
It is 2017. A woman named Signe sails her beloved boat across the treacherous waters of the North Sea from her hometown in Norway to the idyllic city in France where her ex-lover lives. She has...
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Andy Serkis Will Record a New Audiobook Edition of The Hobbit
In May, Gollum actor Andy Serkis powered through a 12-hour reading marathon (a Hobbitathon) of the entirety of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Now, he’ll go back behind the microphone to do it again, for...
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The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker Is a Measured, Gorgeous, Character-Driven...
The Hidden Palace is Helene Wecker’s long-awaited second novel. Wecker’s debut, The Golem and the Jinni, was published to no small acclaim in 2013. Those of us who remember that novel and its fantastic...
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Read an Excerpt From This Woven Kingdom
To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from This Woven Kingdom, the first...
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A Western Fairy Tale in Different Clothes: This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
In the world of Tahereh Mafi’s latest YA fantasy novel, This Woven Kingdom, a cautious peace has been achieved between humans and their predecessors, the Jinn. The Fire Accords, set up by the current...
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Megan Giddings’ The Women Could Fly Finds Magic in Community
It’s a specific kind of magic that some books, when you finish them, feel like stories you’ve always known—like reading the book unlocked it in your head. That’s the feeling I had when I slowly turned...
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Natalie Haynes’ Stone Blind Fills in Mythological Silences
Natalie Haynes is a comedian, writer, and broadcaster, and along with Professor Dame Mary Beard, is probably at the moment the UK’s most well-known female classicist. Stone Blind is her third novel to...
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