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1 month ago | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds |Bill Capossere |Genevieve Valentine

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve ValentineHere is how you read Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti:You open the book, and the first paragraph reminds you, a little, of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and then a gold and brass hand sprouts from the pages, grabs you by your collar, and drags you headfirst into the book.

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds |Johnny Compton

The Spite House by Johnny Compton and I went down a shallow rabbit hole preparing for this review. With his 2023 novel, The Spite House, Johnny Compton takes on the concept of a house built solely to irritate and harass nearby landowners, and morphs it into something original and scary. Eric Ross and his two daughters, Dessa and Stacy, are making their way through Texas, trying to keep under the radar.

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds

The New York Times profiles Nnedi Okorafor and her forthcoming autobiographical novel. (This article may be behind a paywall.)Thanks, File770, for introducing me to yet another “—punk” category: Incensepunk. Also, you can click on their submission guidelines if this is a market where your short fiction would fit. At Reactor, Molly Templeton takes a thoughtful look at the nature of “escapism” in fiction.

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds

John Scalzi announced some changes at Whatever, his venerable blog site. Rosalind Franklin provided remarkable and invaluable data in the discovery of DNA, but Watson and Crick didn’t exactly steal her work—they were just clueless sexists. From 2015. While reading The Spite House, I got interested and found a couple of interesting articles about the residences. Here’s one. The BAFTA longlist for 2025 is out, with Emelia Perez and Conclave at the top. Wicked and Dune II also drew nods.

Jan 1, 2025 | fantasyliterature.com | Marion Deeds |J.M. Miro

Bringer of Dust by J.M. Miro2024’s Bringer of Dust, J.M. Miro’s second book in the trilogy of THE TALENTS, finds our survivors from Book One, Ordinary Monsters, scattered across Europe. Maybe “scattered” isn’t the right word, because their locations are purposeful, as they seek to find an orsine they can open, to return to the world of the dead and rescue Marlowe, the Shining Boy. A quick review of the magic: Clanks can manipulate their own flesh, like making it so dense it will repel bullets.