Skillfully crafted characters...Readers who enjoyed the complex characters and layered plots of his Thomas Covenant novels will find similar pleasures in these two tales.”—Publishers Weekly
Praise for the Thomas Covenant Chronicles
“[A] landmark fantasy saga.”—Entertainment Weekly
“A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication.”—Los Angeles Times
“The most original fantasy since The Lord of the Rings.”—Time Out
“I don’t think books like this come along more than a few times in a lifetime.”—Marion Zimmer Bradley
“Will certainly find a place on the small list of true classics.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Covenant is Donaldson’s genius.”—The Village Voice
The sci-fi and fantasy genres are filled with arbitrary rules and definitions. That’s okay, because civilization itself is basically a collection of arbitrary rules we all agree to abide by, because the alternative is Mad Max: Fury Road. (Heck even in Mad Max’s future dystopia there are rules, like don’t kidnap Immortan Joe’s pregnant concubines.) These […]
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.
Here are the new sci-fi and fantasy titles on shelves this week, from a pair of novellas from a genre master to a trilogy-ender by a pair of award-winning authors.
If I had to pick a “most common adjective” placed in front of the world “fantasy,” the first one that springs to mind is “epic.” We often expect fantasy tales to envelop us in their world-building, labyrinthine plots, and quests that take our heroes over hill and dale on a quest to defeat the villain or slay the dragon. […]