Updating, recasting, or otherwise reimagining a beloved classic is an exercise fraught with danger. The devotee might take umbrage over liberties taken with the original text, while the casual reader unfamiliar with the original may chalk up faithful representation to poor plotting or characterization. Critically, then, an update must work on its own merits, while […]
We don’t know about you, but there are still dozens of 2016 books on our teetering mountain of books we really, really want to read, provided we manage to live long enough. Which is why we approach the massive post below with equal parts excitement and trepidation. We asked sci-fi and fantasy editors from all the […]
Last week we told you about 19 science fiction debut novels coming this year that are currently scaling the peaks of Mount TBR. Today, we’re doing the same for fantasy. After all, one of the (many) reasons people are attracted to the genre is the desire for something new—something we’ve never seen before, or imagined possible. […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that adding dragons to Pride and Prejudice is the best idea I’ve heard in a while. Heartstone, the debut novel of Elle Katharine White, is not set in a Regency England augmented with dragons (like His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik), but in a new fantasy world in which the events […]