Fantasy
Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin
Light Unto Another World by Yakov Merkin [Amazon link] is the first of a planned 10 volume isekai series, with volumes 1 through 5 already published, and 6 through 10 recently crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Uriel Makkis is on his way to a deployment with the Israeli army when he finds
The Black Company by Glen Cook
Glen Cook’s The Black Company is about the stubborn endurance of heroism in the midst of unbelievable wickedness and depravity. The story is incredibly dark, but there is a core of hope that shines through. This is the book that everyone who claims they like grimdark fantasy should read
The Well at World's End by William Morris
Sometimes, I read books so you don’t have to. The Well at World’s End really is a seminal work, but it is also a slog of a book that I wouldn’t recommend to someone reading for fun. But it is a fascinating story, and the prototype of
Darkness and Stone: The Lost Book 3
Darkness and Stone wraps up Peter Nealen’s WarGate series The Lost nicely. You get a cataclysmic final confrontation, endless chthonic horrors, and the phrase, “you mean you just guilt-tripped him to death?”
One of my favorite things about this series is that Nealen manages to give the impression that
Three Hearts and Three Lions on Sale
Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions is on sale on Amazon for $1.99 USD.
This is a seminal work of American fantasy, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Follow-up on a capsule history of English scifi and fantasy
I was looking around my own blog to see if I had ever written anything on Verne while I was prepping my review of Eighty Days Around the World, and I stumbled on this:
A Capsule History of English SciFi and Fantasy
I wrote that post in November of 2010,