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Favorite Fantasy Characters – #Wyrd&Wonder

By John Folk-Williams

Thanks to imyril, I wanted to pick up on her tag, Fantasy Characters of the Year, which she first saw at Space & Sorcery. I’m adapting it to Favorite Fantasy Characters of the past year or more without identifying a favorite male, female, villain, etc. – just fictional people that I find unforgettable. This theme […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: Gautam Bhatia, Jadie Jang, Kelly Barnhill, Leslye Penelope, Liz Williams, Marlon James, Nicola Griffith, Nnedi Okorafor

9 Favorite Fantasy Fiction Books I Read in 2022

By John Folk-Williams

Babel An Arcane History

Though I’ve usually thought of myself as a science fiction reader primarily, this year’s favorite fantasy fiction has shown me how diverse and vital this vast category can be. None of the nine books in this list resorts to the tired conventions of Eurocentric medieval-style settings and hero questing. Each one takes a completely original […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Secondary World Fantasy Tagged With: Emery Robin, Jadie Jang, Leslye Penelope, Ling Ma, Liz Williams, Nicola Griffith, R.F. Kuang, Simon Jimenez, Tasha Suri

Monkey Around by Jadie Jang

By John Folk-Williams

Monkey Around by Jadie Jang

Here’s another great novel from 2021 I’m just catching up with. Claire Light, writing as Jadie Jang, has re-envisioned the Monkey King from the Chinese classic, Journey to the West, as Maya MacQueen, a shape-shifter twenty-something woman of the San Francisco Bay Area during the Occupy movement of 2011. Maya, while assuming human form as […]

Filed Under: Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Asian-American, identity, indigenous culture, Jadie Jang, shape-shifting

10 Novels for My SFF TBR – Summer Edition

By John Folk-Williams

Embertide

Taking on the SFF TBR is like climbing a mountain that keeps growing and expanding as you dig in and inch upward. It’s a little like the problem Sisyphus had with his boulder, but instead of doing the same thing over and over, the path before you keeps changing. It’s full of interesting byways, occasional […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: Geetha Krishnan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jadie Jang, Jonathan Nevair, Liz Williams, Olga Ravn, Scott Hawkins, T.A. Bruno, Tasha Suri, Xia Jia

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