The Unkillable Princess is the second book in a series, but it sounds fun and Nerds of a Feather’s review did it justice.
Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth discuss E. Catherine Tobler’s moody story, “To Drive the Cold Winter Away,” over at Reactor.
File770 had this link to a Doc Savage; Man of Bronze action figure. A belated Christmas present for Sandy?
This is an idiosyncratic list but had some names that were new to me—and a preview of a new Heather Fawcett I didn’t know was coming! Every Book a Doorway lists their most anticipated 2025 books.
The Smithsonian rounds up weird and wonderful things that were found in 2024.
Rounding out our winter holidays, Atlas Obscura shares spooky folktales for the dark, cold nights.
Ooh, I DO kinda like that Doc Savage action figure! But without the ripped shirt, I think I will take a pass….
If it doesn’t have a ripped shirt, is it *really* Doc Savage?
That list of anticipated books is certainly odd, although it does align with the type of books ReacTor and Locus often highlight. And it did have two that are on my list, Kate Elliott’s The Witch Roads and Martha Wells’s Queen Demon. I would add Judge of Worlds (April) by Daniel Abraham, just to see what he does with a third perspective on the same events in Kithamar, The Devils (May) by Joe Abercrombie, which sounds appropriately (for him) grimdark, and Issues With Authority (September) by Nadia Bulkin, her second weird short story collection. Probably my most anticipated would be No Life Forsaken (August) by Steven Erikson, the second in his new Malazan series (with a timeline in the aftermath of his earlier Malazan Book of the Fallen and Ian Cameron Esslemont’s Malazan Empire series). And hopefully Volume 10 of Monstress from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda will be along sometime toward the end of 2025. And maybe another installment of The Night Eaters from that duo?
There are some books I’d like but am not anticipating because there have been no annuncements to indicate they’re coming in 2025, including Alecto the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir), the one everyone is waiting for, a new and maybe final Kencyrath book from P. C. Hodgell, if her writer’s block clears up, and another Steerswoman book from Rosemary Kirstein, which is probably extremely unlikely given her radio silence on that series in recent years. And, well…the next book from GRRM, which we can always dream about. Along with Scott Lynch’s ever-receding The Thorn of Emberlain. Also, very puzzling is the status of Mary Gentle’s return to science fiction, The Landing, which supposedly was published last year or the year before, or maybe next year in Kindle only, or maybe…”How about never? Does never work for you?”