Emma Newman has proven herself a prolific and talented writer with no genre allegiances, showing off her science fiction chops in the psychologically intriguing near-future-set Planetfall and its follow-up, After Atlas, and displaying an affinity for steampunk alternate history in Brother’s Ruin. But we first encountered her via the Split Worlds series, an extremely entertaining mash up of fairy […]
Fairy tales are the oldest fantasy stories still told today, and the ubiquity of fairies in the genre can often make it difficult to do something new with such an old trope. Much the same can be said for portal fantasy and alternate world stories (though A Darker Shade of Magic did an excellent job of it).