Shaun Hamill

Jul 23, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Shaun Hamill |Max Brooks |Rebecca Yarros

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing.

Jul 1, 2024 | reactormag.com | Shaun Hamill |A Cosmology |Tor Nightfire

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Dissonance, a new contemporary fantasy novel by Shaun Hamill, out from Pantheon on July 23rd. “You can never go home again,” the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain.

Jun 19, 2024 | fantasy-hive.co.uk | Shaun Hamill

Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Shaun Hamill back to the Hive. Shaun joins us today to explore how two of his favourite authors, Susanna Clarke and Lev Grossman write magic, and how they influenced his own writing.

May 6, 2024 | jessicamapreviews.com | Shaun Hamill

This was one of those packages that I audibly gasped when I opened it. I LOVED Hamill’s previous release, A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS, and as soon as I heard this was coming out I couldn’t wait to snag a copy.

Apr 22, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Shaun Hamill |Henry H. Neff |Rebecca Fraimow |Aliette de Bodard

Shaun Hamill. Pantheon, $29 (496p) ISBN 978-0-593-31725-9Hamill (A Cosmology of Monsters) returns with a dark and enchanting account of four friends whose dabbling in the supernatural as teenagers threatens their present happiness. In the 1990s, Hal, Athena, Erin, and Peter discover the Dissonance, which enables them to transform negative emotions into great feats of magic, and form a power-hungry coven.