With the third entry of Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archives, Oathbringer, releasing today, the arc that comprises the first five books is more than halfway through. The third book takes nearly all the events that have happened previously and reaches the height of storytelling for the series so far. From the beginning, Oathbringer is ripe …

Everfair by Nisi Shawl is an alternative history set in the Belgian Congo during King Leopold II’s reign. Instead of years of slavery, racism, and genocide a congregation of Fabian Socialist from Great Britain and African-Americans form their own nation called Everfair and resist Leopald’s subjugation and return to slavery. Though alternative history is not …

Tad Williams begins a new journey in the world of Osten Ard with his new book The Witchwood Crown, the first book of a new trilogy The Last King of Osten Ard. Though earlier this year The Heart of What Was Lost served as the first return to Osten Art since the release of To …

Since 2007, Steven King’s The Dark Tower has been in development hell shifting hands from J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Ron Howard before ultimately landing in the grasps of Akiva Goldman, Jeff Pinker, and Nikolai Arcel. With Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers, and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black, …

Earlier this year, Patrick Rothfuss announced a 10th Anniversary Edition of his first novel, The Name of the Wind, while the third book, The Doors of Stone, remains in the revision stage with no announced release date. The news is there is no third book yet but the anniversary edition, according to Rothfuss, will contain …

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of Douglas Adams. On May 11, 2001, Douglas Adams, author of the Trilogy in Five series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, died of a heart attack. Every year on May 25th, we remember Douglas Adams by carrying a towel in his honor and …

BBC Two is set to adapt China Miéville’s The City & The City into a four-part series written by Tony Grisoni whose screen credits include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Young Pope (for all you Pope Zone fans). The series will star David Morrisey, best known in the United States as the Governor on The Walking Dead, as Inspector Tyador Borlú …

Scott Lynch, previously dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, freelance writer, and volunteer firefighter, is the author of the Gentleman Bastard Sequence series of books and a volunteer firefighter. The author, hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, currently resides in Massachusetts with his wife and fellow author, Elizabeth Bear. Lynch, dubbing himself a …

With V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light, the doors between Londons and her Darker Shades of Magic trilogy comes to a close. In it, the characters find themselves on the frontlines of a major crisis that will test their relationships and the extent of their powers. The first book in the series, A Darker Shade …

If you have any basic knowledge of Norse Mythology and then picked a Neil Gaiman novel out of a hat, it is probable you’ll discover the author’s love for it strewn about in his many references both obvious and subtle. It’s no surprise that he would eventually be more direct and write his own take …