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Fantasy June 27, 2022

The Justice of Kings

Richard Swan

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The Justice of Kings (Orbit, 2022) opens with our young narrator, Helena, traveling from town to town as clerk to the King’s Justice, a learned and idealistic man called Vonvalt …

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Interviews with fantasy writers about their new books.

Fantasy May 26, 2022

The Beholden

Cassandra Rose Clarke

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Cassandra Rose Clarke about her book The Beholden (Erewhon Books, 2022). Two impoverished sisters, one with magical gifts and one with ladylike manners and pretty dresses, brave the …
Fantasy May 2, 2022

A Lullaby for Witches

Hester Fox

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Augusta is a meek museum curator trapped in a dead-end job and relationship, when an employment offer to become the collections manager at Harlowe House changes her life. With new …
Recall This Book April 7, 2022

Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya

A Conversation with Anna Vaninskaya

Anna Vaninskaya

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 (2010) and …
Fantasy April 4, 2022

Bone Orchard

Sara A. Mueller

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Get ready for a cruel dark world of abnegation and revenge, featuring a woman who struggles to achieve psychic integration after a succession of betrayals. Like a Westworld written by …
Fantasy March 24, 2022

Scorpica

The Five Queendoms, Book 1

G. R. Macallister

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Today I talked to G. R. Macallister about her book Scorpica (Gallery / Saga Press, 2022). A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single …
Fantasy March 15, 2022

The Cartographers

Peng Shepherd

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Nell Young, a dedicated cartographer, once had it all—a dream job in the New York Public Library, a stylish boyfriend, Felix, who understood her obsession with maps, and a good …
Fantasy February 2, 2022

Trailer Park Trickster

David R. Slayton

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Did you ever hear the one about the elf, druid, and warlock that walk into—no, not a bar—but a trailer? Trailer Park Trickster (Blackstone, 2021), David Slayton’s follow up to …
Fantasy January 11, 2022

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Sue Lynn Tan about her new book Daughter of the Moon Goddess (Harper Voyager, 2022). The immortal Xinyin lives a quiet life on the moon with her mother …
Fantasy December 1, 2021

Wicked As You Wish

Rin Chupeco

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Rin Chupeco's Wicked As You Wish (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020) begins with our Filipina narrator, Tala, and her best friend, Alexei, who both attend high school in the small Arizona town …
Fantasy November 1, 2021

The Seventh Queen

A Novel

Greta Kelly

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The Seventh Queen (HarperCollins, 2021) is the second book in the Warrior Witch Duology, so the following review and questions for author Greta Kelly assume you’ve read the first one. If …
Fantasy October 11, 2021

Capture the Crown

Jennifer Estep

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Jennifer Estep about her new book Capture the Crown (HarperCollins, 2021). Princess Gemma Ripley is famous for her glittering outfits, in which she flounces through countless parties and balls …
Fantasy August 10, 2021

Appleseed

Matt Bell

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
We have a collective memory of a primeval world embodied in myth. It is a world where spirits lived in the trees, water, and mountains, and nature was sacred. Was …
Fantasy July 14, 2021

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel: A Master of Djinn (Tordotcom, 2021). Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is …
Fantasy June 8, 2021

The Wolf and the Woodsman

A Novel

Ava Reid

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Ava Reid about her new book The Wolf and the Woodsman (Harper Voyager, 2021) The wolf, in the title refers to a pagan woman, given to the dreaded …
Fantasy May 10, 2021

The Bone Shard Daughter

The Drowning Empire Book One

Andrea Stewart

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Andrea Stewart about The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One (Hachette UK, 2020). In a world of floating islands, various narrators try to achieve or avoid …
Fantasy April 15, 2021

The Frozen Crown

A Novel

Greta Kelly

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
The horror of the battlefield is fresh for Princess Askia. She’s just been forced to flee her kingdom, the northern country of Seravesh, where her cousin now rules under the …
Fantasy March 29, 2021

Taylenor

Anne Marie Lutz

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Anne Marie Lutz about her book Taylenor (Hydra, 2019).  Taylen is the designation for magical power in the world that Anne Marie Lutz has created: a power so …
Fantasy March 5, 2021

Across the Green Grass Fields

Seanan McGuire

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields (Tor.com, 2021), a stand-alone novel in the Wayward Children series, a portal transports a horse-loving ten-year old, Regan, to Hooflands. Soon she becomes …
Fantasy February 2, 2021

We Could Be Heroes

Mike Chen

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
This quirky, offbeat novel introduces us to two people, Zoe and Jamie, who both have amnesia and super-powers. While Jamie is a criminal who holds up banks, Zoe is a …