Next month, Tor.com Publishing will debut a new novella from the award-winning Kij Johnson (The Man Who Bridged the Mist). The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is a fascinating, gender-flipped reconsideration of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It’s a short, striking, lyrical work. Sample it below, and preorder it before its release on August 16.
This week’s new SFF will more than keep us busy on the plane to MidAmericon II in Kansas City, including a book by one of the nominees for this year’s Hugo Award for Best Novel. And who knows: this list may include one (or more!) of next year’s Hugo nominees.
Generating blog content is all about capitalizing on trends, capturing the zeitgeist, joining the conversation. And if there is one conversation that has dominated science fiction and fantasy circles in 2016, it has been the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft. Once considered a two-bit pulp writer, later revered as a literary legend, Lovecraft and his Mythos cast […]