Books

Immediately following The Two of Them — within the same year, in fact — is Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978). Kittatinny is a middle-grade book written by Joanna Russ for Daughters Publishing, with illustrations by Loretta Li. It’s out of print ...

Kodansha Comics USA has just released the first volumes of Codename Sailor V and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon in English, following a 2003/2004 re-release in Japan. These volumes are retranslated, touched up, and reorganized from the original 1990s edit...

All Men of Genius, out on September 27th from Tor Books, is Lev AC Rosen’s first novel. A steampunk romp inspired by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the book tells a fast-paced story of (fantastical) scien...

As I’ve been keeping track of the amazing Symphony of Science project for the denizens of Tor.com for some while now (prior posts here, here, and here), it pleases me to announce that a new song and video have recently gone live!The new track is titl...

Russ’s next book, following We Who Are About To…, is a short novel titled The Two of Them. It is her second-to-last novel and last SF novel; the next two pieces of fiction she will write are a children’s book and a mainstream lesbian novel. Berkl...

These young men, with apparently quite a lot of free time, have put together a shockingly intricate rendition of the Legend of Zelda theme on marimba, snare, timpani, cymbal, and triangle. Mostly, marimba. If you don’t know what a marimba is, it’s ...

The Tor.com re-read of Fables began in February and has run until the beginning of September — that’s more than half a year of posts on Bill Willingham’s creation, including spin-offs and related works. It’s been a long ride from that first vol...

Feynman is a graphic biography of the world-renowned physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Myrick, with colors Hilary Sycamore. It was released by :01 (First Second), an imprint of Holtzbrinck devo...

The final volume of Jack of Fables is aptly titled The End, and it collects issues #46-50. It takes place a long jump after The Fulminate Blade, with Jack (F) having lived a long time and the ex-Literals edging close to elderly, in Gary’s case, and m...

The Tempering of Men by Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear is the second novel in their Iskryne Saga, follow-up to the critically lauded A Companion to Wolves (2007), and picks up immediately where that book leaves off: the end of the war with the trol...

The eighth collected volume of Jack of Fables is The Fulminate Blade, gathering issues #41-45 of the storyline. It’s more or less entirely about young Jack Frost embarking on science fiction adventures on alien planets with some very recognizable tro...

Carrie Vaughn’s newest book, Kitty’s Greatest Hits, is the first short story collection set in her popular Kitty Norville series—an urban fantasy world where the paranormal has come out of the closet thanks in part to the lead character’s late-...