Originally found at Variety, it appears that the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, the pseudonym for wordsmiths Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, has become a television project in which the pilot is to be written by the people behind Iron Man, Mark Fergus and Hawk Otsby. I’ve yet to read the series but Leviathan Wakes…
I’m asked to write about religion a lot, primarily because of Miserere’s themes, and since it’s my job as the author to present this topic from a different angle every time, I had to think about this one for a bit. Religion. *taps fingers* Okay, let’s approach it this way: My number one rule, especially…
The first question someone will typically ask about my novella North Dark is ‘What’s the genre?’ My answer is always a blend of answers, rambling through influences as old-school as Jack London, as pulpy as Lovecraft and as stark as A Farewell to Arms. But that doesn’t really answer the genre question so much as…
Jo Fletcher is a fairly new imprint for Quercus specializing in most of the speculative fiction genre. They started with a bang, and their list of authors includes some who’ve proven their mettle like Sarah Pinborough and Ian McDonald. They also have a slew of authors who have debuted within the last few years with success,…
In my reviews of Empire in Black and Gold and Dragonfly Falling, I wrote of how hesitant I was beginning the Shadows of the Apt series. Insects are something that had never really made a presence in fantasy. They’re (mostly) disgusting creatures and the thought of reading a series where the orphan boy has been replaced by all…
