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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The Childrens' Book Awards-nominated illustrator is engrossed in fantasy and speculative fiction.

As a teen growing up on a steady diet of books, movies, and video games, there was always a certain character dynamic I gravitated toward hard, even though it was an embarrassingly long time before I could pinpoint what exactly it was about it that pushed my buttons so relentlessly. Turns out the answer is simple, even if it’s hard to find: a pure friendship between characters of different genders. Not a friendship that turns into a romance. Not a friendship that exists as a consolation priz...

If you’ve not yet read Nicole Kornher-Stace’s novels Archivist Wasp and Latchkey, I’d like to strongly encourage you to do so. It’s not because they’re connected to Firebreak—to my surprise and delight, they are, though Firebreak is a standalone—but because they’re just so good. Immersive, dark, vivid, imaginative and eerie, they follow one young woman in a post-apocalyptic world where her task is two-pronged: survive, and catch ghosts. Firebreak is set in a world not yet tu...