When I was at World Fantasy this past October, I attended a couple of readings that blew me away. One was a reading by Saladin Ahmed, from his yet-to-be-agented-or-sold novel (I can’t recall the title, alas). The fact that I couldn’t look forward to a specific date on which I could pick up the [...]
  | In Indigo Springs, a small town in Oregon, a magical apocalypse is brewing, and three young people are right smack-dab in the middle of it. Astrid, the book’s protagonist, has inherited a lovely old blue house from her ne’er-do-well father. She doesn’t even have all the moving boxes unpacked when her manipulative friend Sierra, [...] At World Fantasy, there is never any shortage of wonderful new books. This year, there were a couple of “it” books which seemed to have everyone talking: N.K. Jemisin’s “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” (excitement which was certainly fueled by N.K.’s excellent reading of a cliffhanger chapter) and “Soulless“, by Gail Carriger. Sadly, N.K. Jemisin’s [...] | |
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