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August began in Florence with friends, then we went to Worldcon in Glasgow by train via Cologne, then a week in Edinburgh at the Fringe seeing three or four plays a day, then back to Florence by train via Lyon. It was all excellent, especially sitting next to Naomi Kritzer at Worldcon when she won...

Cursed to haunt the river running through the magical spa town where she drowned, Gisela is a water nymph who dreams of returning to the living world and the family she left behind. All it takes to regain her humanity is a kiss from a mortal… but everyone sees her as a monster. And then...

Summary Moist lets more of the day go by, then hops outside the train carriage to run along the top of it and get a feel for the railway. He goes to sleep that night and, elsewhere, a dwarf attacks the granny of a railway worker, who throws her full chamberpot at him. They get...

Step into a world of necromancy, murder, and twisted magic. A world in need of a hero… Sung-il Kim’s fantasy novel Blood of the Old Kings begins an epic journey unlike any other—and we’re thrilled to share the map, created by cartographer and illustrator is Emily Langmade. An English edition of Blood of the Old Kings, translated by...

It would be tempting to call Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction “timely,” but the themes, feelings, experiences, and traumas these stories call upon are neither new nor unprecedented. Each is part of a continuum of personal and cultural histories that trace back before any of the authors were born. If you take nothing else...

Virika gave up everything for the Æcerbot Empire. She gave up her family, her culture, her past. She left behind all that her ancestors from the British West Indies brought with them when they fled a devastated Earth and became known as Exterran Antilleans. She left behind everything they created in their new hostile homeland...

Are you ready to read The Wheel of Time? Because I am! We are back from our break to cover chapters eight and nine of Crossroads of Twilight, in which Perrin finally catches up with the Shaido and things look very bleak for the prospect of rescuing Faile. Both husband and wife struggle to maintain composure...

If Richard Matheson’s impact continues to reverberate through modern horror, Joanna Russ was a seismic blow to the world of fantastic fiction. A queer feminist critic known for her explorations of gender and feminism through fiction like The Female Man, her landmark satirical work of criticism How to Suppress Women’s Writing, and her incendiary (but honest) reviews for The...

In ghost stories, things left undone in life are often the occasion for hauntings: the child abandoned, the love undeclared, the crime unavenged. In Haunt Sweet Home, the new novella by Sarah Pinsker, things left undone and the potentials left unrealized are the domain of the living narrator, Mara. She’s in her mid-twenties, without a stable...

September 3 Songlight — Moira Buffini (HarperCollins)Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift of songlight. She buries that secret deep inside. In Brightland, those with songlight are called Unhumans and are abhorred. Rye is the only...