All Episodes

Shannon Chakraborty, "The Tapestry of Fate" (Harper Voyager, 2026)

Peter Darbyshire, "The Wonder Lands War" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

Lauren J.A. Bear, "Aphrodite in Pieces" (Ace, 2026)

Cameron Sullivan, "The Red Winter" (Tor Books, 2026)

Nicole Glover, "The Starseekers: A Murder and Magic Novel" (Harper Voyager, 2026)

Mia Tsai, "The Memory Hunters" (Erewhon Books, 2025)

Caskey Russell, "The Door on the Sea" (Solaris, 2025)

Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)

Katherine Addison, "The Tomb of Dragons" (Tor Books, 2025)

Caitlin Starling, "The Oblivion Bride" (Neon Hemlock Press, 2025)

Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024) This

Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)

Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)

P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes

Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)

Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024)

Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Dana Elmendorf, "In the Hour of Crows" (Mira Books, 2024)

C. J. Spataro, "More Strange Than True" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024)

Eliza Chan, "Fathomfolk" (Orbit, 2024)

Rachel Greenlaw, "Compass and Blade" (Inkyard Press, 2024)

Alix E. Harrow, "Starling House" (Tor Books, 2023)

Bradley P. Beaulieu, "The Dragons of Deepwood Fen" (Daw Books, 2023)

Wole Talabi, "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon" (Daw Books, 2023)

Hannah Kaner, "Godkiller" (Harper Voyager, 2023)

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Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])

Aparna Verma, "The Phoenix King" (Orbit, 2023)

Garth Nix, "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer" (Harper Voyager, 2023)

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, "The Witch and the Tsar" (Ace Books, 2022)

M. A. Carrick, "Labyrinth's Heart" (Orbit, 2023)

T. Kingfisher, "Thornhedge" (Tor, 2023)

L. R. Lam, "Dragonfall" (DAW, 2023)

Melvin Burgess, "Loki: A Novel" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

Daniel M. Ford, "The Warden" (Tor, 2023)

Kelly Barnhill, "The Crane Husband" (Tordotcom, 2023)

Olivia Atwater, "Half a Soul" (Orbit, 2022)

Hadeer Elsbai, "The Daughters of Izdihar" (Harper Voyager, 2023)

Christopher M. Hood, "The Revivalists" (Harper, 2022)

Tanvi Berwah, "Monsters Born and Made" (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)

Marion Deeds, "Comeuppance Served Cold" (Tordotcom, 2022)

R. F. Kuang, "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution" (Harper Voyager, 2022)

Foz Meadows, "A Strange and Stubborn Endurance" (Tor Books, 2022)

Richard Swan, "The Justice of Kings" (Orbit, 2022)

Cassandra Rose Clarke, "The Beholden" (Erewhon Books, 2022)

Hester Fox, "A Lullaby for Witches" (Graydon House Books, 2022)

78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya

Sara A. Mueller, "Bone Orchard" (Tor Books, 2022)

G. R. Macallister, "Scorpica" (Gallery / Saga Press, 2022)

Peng Shepherd, "The Cartographers" (William Morrow, 2021)

David R. Slayton, "Trailer Park Trickster" (Blackstone, 2021)

Sue Lynn Tan, "Daughter of the Moon Goddess" (Harper Voyager, 2022)

Rin Chupeco, "Wicked As You Wish" (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020)

Greta Kelly, "The Seventh Queen: A Novel" (HarperCollins, 2021)

Jennifer Estep, "Capture the Crown" (HarperCollins, 2021)

Matt Bell, "Appleseed" (Custom House, 2021)

P. Djèlí Clark, "A Master of Djinn" (Tordotcom, 2021)

Ava Reid, "The Wolf and the Woodsman" (Harper Voyager, 2021)

Andrea Stewart, "The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One" (Hachette, 2020)

Greta Kelly, "The Frozen Crown" (Harper Voyager, 2020)

Anne Marie Lutz, "Taylenor" (Hydra, 2019)

Seanan McGuire, "Across the Green Grass Fields" (Tor.com, 2021)

Mike Chen, "We Could Be Heroes" (Mira Books, 2021)

Ilona Andrews, "Emerald Blaze: A Hidden Legacy Novel" (Avon Books, 2020)

Evan Winter, "The Fires of Vengeance" (Orbit Books, 2020)

S. J. Hartland, "The 19th Bladesman" (Dark Blade, 2018)

Menna Van Praag, "The Sisters Grimm" (Harper Voyager, 2020)

Premee Mohamed, "Beneath The Rising" (Solaris, 2020)

Laura Ruby, "Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All" (Balzer and Bray, 2019)

Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield: A Novel" (Harper Voyager, 2020)

Kathleen Jennings, "Flyaway" (Tor.com, 2020)

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

S. M. Hardy, "The Evil Within" (Allison and Busby, 2020)

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Keren Landsman, "The Heart of the Circle" (Angry Robot, 2019)

Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)

Carrie Vaughn, "The Immortal Conquistador" (Tachyon Publications, 2020)

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Gabrielle Mathieu, "Girl of Fire" (Five Directions Press, 2019)

Sarah Kozloff, "A Queen in Hiding" (Tor, 2020)

Priya Sharm, "Ormeshadow" (Tor.com, 2019)

Christopher Brown, "Rule of Capture" (Harper Voyager, 2019)

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Emily Roberson, "Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters" (FSG, 2019)

Melissa Albert, "The Hazel Wood" (Flatiron Books, 2018)

Eyal Kless, "The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chronicles" (Harper Voyager, 2019)

Sharon Shinn, "Echo in Onyx: Uncommon Echoes" (Audible Studios, 2019)

R. Scott Boyer, "Bobby Ether and the Jade Academy" (2013)

R. F. Kuang, "The Poppy War" (Harper Voyager, 2019)

Madeline Miller, "Circe" (Little, Brown and Company, 2018)

Matthew Binder, "The Absolved" (Black Spot Books, 2018)

Yang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Books, 2019)

Marshall Ryan Maresca, "The Way of the Shield" (DAW, 2018)

Lauren C. Teffeau, "Implanted" (Angry Robot, 2018)

David M. Ewalt, “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and The People Who Play It” (Scribner, 2013)