December is the perfect season for a binge, be it on food (it’s sweater weather), alcohol (family time ahoy!), or books and television (it’s cold outside!). Well, we can’t tell you what to eat or drink, but we relish telling you what books to read to scratch a particular itch. In that spirit, this holiday […]
The second novel by Finnish author Emmi Itäranta (Memory of Water), begins as a conspiracy thriller set in a dystopian fantasy kingdom, and quickly unfolds into something altogether more. It introduces its real story slowly and subtly, building a world and exploring why it came to be that way, until it eventually transmutes into something surprising. With vivid imagery, subtle menace, […]
With 17 new sci-fi and fantasy books arriving on shelves this week, there’s no time to waste…here’s what’s new.