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Knight's Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald (Tor, 2023) Review by Warner Holme: Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald's Knight's Wyrd is a short medievalist fantasy book that makes a large number of unusual decisions. A short novel like this can slip through the cracks easily, and the focus Tor Essentials is giving it with this

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“A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once in...

Niall Harrison reviews three early-20th-century science fiction novels published as part of the MIT Press’s Radium Age series....

Meissner ( The Last Year of the War) spins an exceptional story about an Irish immigrant who lands in San Francisco shortly before the 1906 earthquake. After spending two years in New York City, Sophie Whalen, 20, answers a newspaper ad from widower Martin Hocking of San Francisco, who is seeking a wife for him and a mother for his daughter. Sophie falls head over heels for Martin’s five-year-old daughter, Kat, having given up having a child of her own, and looks forward to developing a bond ...