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Where do all the siblings go? One of my earliest book memories was of Ida in Maurice Sendak’s Outside Over There taking matters into her own hands to rescue her baby sister, who has been replaced with a changeling (and, in the movies, the well-named Sarah similarly setting off to save her little brother from the clutches of the Goblin King). The Pevensies ruled Narnia together. Meg Murry and her brother Charles Wallace traveled the universe to get their father back in A Wrinkle in Time, the...

We all know her. We’ve been her. Everyone else gets an invitation to a party and you…don’t. After the initial sting of rejection wears off, you’re faced with a dilemma: Do you sit at home with a pint of ice cream (or something stronger) while you rage text your friends? Or do you show up at the party, uninvited, and curse the host’s infant child? We know which path the evil fairy in the Sleeping Beauty tale chooses. Her response—to curse the newborn princess to die on her sixteenth...

So you just binged A Discovery Of Witches season one—the spectacular book-to-TV adaptation featuring Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode and now you’re wondering what to do with your life now that season 2 is coming to a close. You’re captivated by the world, the characters, the romance and are desperate for something to fill the void the show will leave behind. I’ve got you covered. Like you, I binge-watched season one and felt a massive need to continue that bewitching and fantastic feel...

Photo courtesy of Alix E. Harrow Tor Books announced the acquisition of The Underland and an additional standalone novel from author Alix E. Harrow, acquired at auction by Vice President, Publisher Devi Pillai from Kate McKean at Vice President at the Howard Morhaim Agency. The UK and Commonwealth rights were acquired by Bella Pagan, Publishing Director of Pan Macmillan’s Tor imprint, from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein Ltd. Foreign rights are with Baror International and RDC Litera. The Unde...

Alex Brown (by Henrik Meng) 2020 has been a hellish year for so many reasons, but one of the few bright spots has been the mass of absolutely incredible fiction that managed to get published. Usually I’m able to read a good chunk of new books, particularly young-adult speculative fiction, but what with – waves hands dramatically – everything, my reading this year took a sharp left into romance fiction. It’s become my main reading genre at this point, which hasn’t left much room for a...

Jonathan Strahan (by Francesca Myman) I started the year with good intentions. I intended to read every piece of short fiction that I could lay my hands on, every major novel, every exciting debut or anthology or short story collection and more. I would read all the things. This is the story of how I did not read all the things. I did not even read most of the things. Way back in January, everything seemed simple. I hadn’t heard of a growing problem in China; I’d just delivered my Year’...

Alix E. Harrow was born November 9, 1989 in Idaho and grew up in Colorado and Kentucky. She went to Berea College at age 16, graduating in 2009 with a degree in history. She worked various jobs, including as a research assistant, cashier, housekeeper, instructional designer, and migrant farmworker, before earning a master’s in history at the University of Vermont. She taught history at Eastern Kentucky Univer­sity before becoming a full-time writer. Harrow lives in Kentucky with her husband ...

2020 was quite the year for science fiction, but it wasn’t all about escaping to other worlds. It’s easy to imagine flights of fancy in a spaceship to be a reprieve to reality, but science fiction and fantasy literature is the product of people with real concerns about the real world, and accordingly, they write about the challenges that we see in the world around us. Over the last 12 months, I’ve been thinking about the value of speculative literature in a time like this. There’s a mem...

Over the Woodward Wall (Tor.com Publishing 10/20) Baker is an open pseudonym for Seanan McGuire, and Over the Woodward Wall began as a book-within-a-book, a middle-grade fantasy discussed in McGuire’s 2019 novel Middlegame. The full-length version is a deliberately classic children’s fantasy and begins the Up-and-Under series. “Delec­table, a ripe treat for lifelong readers…. It’s filled with adventure and wisdom, and navigates well-worn ideas with fresh enthusiasm.” [Katharine C...