Le Guin can do more with a novella than most people can do with a full-length book. She writes with complexity about justice, cruelty, home, and grief just as deftly as she moves between science fiction, fantasy, and realism, and each of these stories is populated by characters so real you can almost feel their …
This summer a highly anticipated title is the YA debut by the author of the adult title Mem. Morrow sets her story in a contemporary alternative world where portions of the population have various mythical abilities and identities. Inherent in these identities are built in assumptions and prejudices, the most heightened of which are towards “sirens,” …
Spellhacker is a fun, spunky romp through an exciting, technologically savvy world. Diz and her fellow band of insurgents are the best heist-mongers for Maz, or magic, in their sad, industry-controlled city. With their last official heist complete, Diz faces her nightmare of losing everything she cares about. In efforts to retain her loved ones, …
In uncertain and fearful times, there’s nothing like a light and happy love story to give you hope—and this contemporary fantasy novel fits the bill. “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” meets Terry Pratchett in this story of wayward magical children and their enigmatic, charming caretaker. Filled with humor, wit, and a cast of delightfully memorable …
H. G. Parry’s deliciously literary bangity-bang The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep is out in paperback now. The premise is pretty simple: Charlie can make characters in books come to life. The complication is, uh, as frantic as a cave full of bats caught up in silly string. Naturally, Charlie and a handful of literature’s greatest must …
The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure! The setup: three brothers and their father set out to play Dungeons and Dragons together, without knowing anything about Dungeons and Dragons. It goes exactly as you’d expect. This is the first of several graphic novels based off the magnificent accident-of-a-podcast …
Every ten years a cold and fearsome wizard known only as the Dragon takes a young woman from Agnieszka’s village; it’s a sacrifice they must endure to keep their village safe from the corrupted, malevolent Wood. No one knows what the women must endure in the Dragon’s castle, but they always return changed. When Agnieszka …
…And speaking of hardheadedness and fisticuffs, one of our favorite books from last year is out in paperback now. It’s Dan Stroud’s gloriously gritty Titanshade, and yes, that is a ’80s cop show cover slapped on a noir fantasy novel because dear readers, that is exactly what this is. It’s “NYPD Blue” meets, uh, something that …
Like many children who suffer from an abundance of imagination and a shortfall of social skills, I was always on the lookout for a door into a more magical world. Narnia, Middle Earth, Starfleet, Sherwood Forest– I wasn’t picky. Anywhere with spaceships, swordfights, or telepathic dragons would do. Reality stubbornly refused to provide me with …
The newest graphic novel from team Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker is packed full of the most amazing imagery and story, I couldn’t stop reading! I also couldn’t get over how natural the whole story was. Main characters Tam and Nova have their little quirks – one’s a witch with hearing aids, one’s a non-binary …
