Fantasy

Once upon a time, writing and sharing fan fiction on the internet carried a distinct stigma. Extending other people's universes or characters was widely seen as an outlet for the uncreative, the unsocial, and the sexually frustrated.

Those days are coming to an end.

Nora Jemisin is still getting used to Bed-Stuy. It's a dreary winter Tuesday, and she's settled into a seat at one of her favored local haunts, the Brown Butter Café, where she's welcomed more as a local than as the resident celebrity author.  Read more

Part of what makes VanderMeer's weirdness so striking is his ability to create believably strange natural worlds from a place of granular fascination. He's often credited this to his time living in tropical locales, especially Florida. VanderMeer has described images in Annihilation inspired by the state as "ecstatically beautiful," though others may find them startling.  Read more

After completing eight books (in a series that was initially supposed to be a trilogy), Eoin Colfer thought he was finished with Artemis Fowl, his devilishly naughty anti-hero, when his last adventure released in 2012. Not quite.  Read more

You can't tell everything about a person by looking at their social media feeds, but trust me: It is meaningful, or at least somewhat meaningful, that George R.R. Martin hasn't made a single mention of HBO's Game of Thrones on his Twitter or blog since the April 14 premiere of the show's final season.  Read more