After a long career as a warrior, a determined woman questions her sacrifices and unwavering obedience to a charismatic leader in "The Wings Upon Her Back", Samantha Mills’s... Read More

A powerful wizard protects her right to self-determination in Patricia A. McKillip’s fantasy classic "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". “Every time I read "The Forgotten Beasts... Read More

Black holes, new religions, and powerful stories ensnare orbiting beings with their intrigue and potentiality in Lavie Tidhar’s science fiction marvel "The Circumference of... Read More

In Mia Tsai’s novel "Bitter Medicine", two haunted immortals find love despite overwhelming obstacles. Elle was once an aspiring artist and powerful glyphmaker. She has two... Read More

In the fairy tales and poems of Jane Yolen’s "The Scarlet Circus", there are curious permutations of haunting, mesmerizing love stories. Featuring previously published stories... Read More

Amid the shifting desert sands of Lavie Tidhar’s novel "Neom", a melancholy robot searches for something to believe in. Earth has changed since people first took to the stars.... Read More

The first full-length novel in the expansive Birdverse series, "The Unbalancing" is an LGBTQ+ fantasy overflowing with heart—and heartache. Long ago, twelve stars dropped from... Read More

Influenced by Persian culture, "The Bruising of Qilwa" is a stunning fantasy novella that confronts questions of belonging: to a culture, a family, and to yourself. Nonbinary... Read More

The line between figurative and literal beasts is blurred in the inventive stories of Sam J. Miller’s Boys, Beasts & Men. The book’s conjured funhouse worlds are both... Read More

Set in the world of Moby-Dick, whose whaling towns were brutal, Jane Yolen’s novel "Arch of Bone" is about grief, coming-of-age, and survival. Josiah, the fourteen-year-old... Read More

A father wrangles with his impending grief in a steampunk, Wild West alternate universe in Lavie Tidhar’s dazzling novel "The Escapement". There was once a boy so beloved that... Read More

In Nicole Kornher-Stace’s science fiction novel "Jillian vs. Parasite Planet", an eleven-year-old jets into serious space trouble when she’s stranded with snarky tech,... Read More