In this final novel of The Daevabad Trilogy, Ali, Nahri, and Dara are morally challenged beyond endurance by the rise of death magic in their beloved kingdom. How they respond changes everything.
Craig Laurance Gidney’s Marsh-bell Queen is half muse, half greedy ghost, and all fascinating.
Butterfly Lampshade is Aimee Bender’s first novel in a decade and the follow-up book to her incredible short story collection The Color Master (2013). A book about memory and isolation that we didn’t know we needed.
Karen Osborne’s debut is part sci-fi adventure, part love story, and 100% critical of unfettered corporate capitalism.
Every Bone a Prayer, the impressive debut novel by Ashley Blooms, is an expressionistic To Kill a Mockingbird of personal trauma.
The new novel from the author of Station Eleven is eerily relevant, and it’s not even about a pandemic this time.
A diverse collection of sci fi and fantasy stories and poems about Western and Eastern dragons and their relationships with families and humans, blood and gold.
Looking for your next read? Check out Malcom Devlin’s Engines Beneath Us available now from TTA Press.
Volume five of The Murderbot Diaries, reviewed.
You won’t want to miss this haunting debut collection. Thin Places by Kay Chronister available now from Undertow Publications.
Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.
Reading something dark and fantastic is great for enduring a pandemic.
What does it mean to have agency when we find ourselves at the mercy of events utterly beyond our control?
Nino Cipri’s novella FINNA, reviewed.
Flocks of red birds haunt a school where girls are shaped by the desires of others. Clare Beams examines the creeping horror of growing up female.
In Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House the unlikely place of New Haven, Connecticut is one of the world’s centers of magical power.
A welcome entry into the non-Western fantasy field set in the ancient Mayan underworld, Xibalba, and the Mexican Jazz Age.
The Fiction Unbound editors discuss connections and similarities between The Good Place and Good Omens. Meta observations about storytelling and what makes us human ensue.
If you love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland you won’t want to miss this anthology, a collection of seventeen original works that will make you reexamine your own relationship to Wonderland.
In Hugo Award-winner Alix E. Harrow’s debut novel, ordinary doors open to ordinary spaces and capital D Doors open to other worlds.
Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending memoir is a formally dazzling and emotionally acute testimony of an abusive queer relationship.
The world of Fountains Parish is a delightfully dark steampunk fantasy, where making friends takes on every shade of meaning. Homunculi, golem, AI, human—the difference between the spark of life that comes by way of magic and the one that comes from nature might not be as big as you think.
Nino Cipri’s short story collection, Homesick, explores the impact of the things that haunt us and how, most often, that thing is the true self we most wish to deny.
The difficult details about real traumas China suffered in the early 20th century make this widely-praised trilogy uniquely interesting. The unusual fantasy elements and atypical heroine’s journey are bonuses.
You won’t want to miss the latest from Priya Sharma. Ormeshadow is a quick read that packs an emotional punch.
Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera is well worth checking out. Fiction Unbound dives into this science fiction story about an intergalactic Eurovision contest that will determine the fate of humanity.
Sarah Pinsker’s debut novel sings the joys of connection and the discontent of sticking it to the Man.
Don’t miss this latest release from Undertow Publications: All The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly. It will have you itching to create, which will be a good use of the time you used to spend sleeping.
Cadwell Turnbull's new novel — the first in a trilogy — imagines the hard, uncertain work of a fantastical justice.