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The YA fantasy I grew up with had a paradox at its heart. I wanted to be just like the heroes from these books, whose stories spoke to my experiences: feeling like I looked different than everyone else, like I didn’t fit in, knowing that my peers didn’t like or accept me, thinking that grown-ups couldn’t understand why I felt so isolated. And yet I never once actually saw myself in these books. The heroes of these novels were invariably white, able-bodied, heterosexual, and cisgender. (Fo...

, SYFY WIREs weekly comics column that gets at the pulse of whats going on in comics right now. Weve got what you need to know about huge crossovers, real-life issues facing the industry, cool first looks, the weeks hot new comics, and everything in-between. We tend to keep the focus pretty tight here at Comics Wire, writing very specifically about comics projects in both short and long form and shying away from a lot of talk about tie-in merchandise and adaptations. But sometimes a group of am...

(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—work...

May 27, 2021 Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles including stories of private school drama, a raccoon’s dumpster finds, a girl and her busy parents, a picture book biography of a pivotal painter, and many more. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. Feiwel and Friends, $18.99; ISBN 978-1-250-80081-7. An anonymous texter known as Aces reveals secrets about an elite private school’s only two Black students in this bracing debut that explores systemic oppres...

by A.M. Strickland—May 18, 2021; Imprint You had me at “pansexual bloodmage.” With her blue hair, Rovan Ballacra is easily recognizable as a bloodmage. After witnessing her father be executed for refusing to serve the king, she’s hidden her abilities. But when she is forced to use her powers to save a friend, she’s dragged off to the palace, bound to a shade who keeps an eye on her on behalf of the king, and is set to be married off regardless of her wishes. Somehow Rovan must figure...

Photo by Igor Kraguljac It’s a big deal for Murderbot fans and the largest deal to date for Tordotcom Publishing: Executive Editor Lee Harris has acquired six more books by Martha Wells for the imprint! The first new (non-Murderbot) book, Witch King, will be published in Fall 2022, with the rest following yearly. Wells is, of course, the author of the bestselling and beloved Murderbot Diaries, which has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards. The five novellas and one novel tell the st...

TMC News - March 2021 Recent activities at the Tolkien Modding Community. Mar 16th, 2021 Activity at modding At the game Mount & Blade: Warband the developers of Persistent Lord of the Rings (PLotR) posted a gameplay video, showcasing a bit the region of Rhovanion in the upcoming update at the end of March. At LotR: Realms in Exile for Crusader Kings III the next update got a release date, its going to be the third of April. The update will feature the realms of Gondor, Mordor and Umbar. We got...

TMC News - February 2021, II Recent activities at the Tolkien Modding Community. Feb 28th, 2021 TMC visually overhauled As some of you might have noticed already, the Tolkien Modding Community got a visual overhaul. Not only does it look a bit more personalized now, the main page and the subpages have been reorganised to make it easier to find Tolkien-themed mods for their games and therefore to show off your mod a bit better. Take a look around and make sure that your mod is listed too. Feel a...

Mike Madigan, for decades the most powerful politician in Illinois, is out. Now what?

TMC News - December 2020 Recent activities at the Tolkien Modding Community. Dec 23rd, 2020 And again another year has passed. I would have loved to review the activity of the whole year but time is sparse, so its just another newsletter. Those modders are also never making a break, always new stuff to report of. Have a nice read! Editor Choice Award First of the congratulation of the team to the developers of the modding projects Age of the Ring and Last Alliance: Total War. First one won in t...