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...
View ArticleCthulhu 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,...
View ArticleDorothy 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...
View ArticleFunpocalypse: 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...
View ArticleAshes 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleSony 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...
View ArticleSing 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...
View ArticleNature 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...
View ArticleSame 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....
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleLove 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...
View ArticleVikings 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...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleJ.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...
View ArticleLinnea 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...
View ArticleHere 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...
View ArticleFive 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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