Science fiction and fantasy books are awesome, and if you
don’t yet know why, Library
Journal is here to tell you. Library Journal’s
Genre Spotlight on sf/fantasy novels featured three books we’re
excited about: Richard Kadrey’s Dead Set, Nick Cole’s The Wasteland Saga, and Ian Douglas’ Abyss. The article discusses
the future of the science fiction and fantasy genres, pinpointing why and how
these books have seen a resurgence in recent years, and especially what exactly
must be present in those books to make them successful.
Kadrey, best known for his Sandman Slim series, will release
Dead Set this October, “a stand-alone about a young girl caught
between the living and the dead.” Harper Voyager Executive Editor Denise Gill
explains about this divergence, “Writing one story and not having to set the
world and plot up for many visits lends itself to a different sort of story.”
Nick Cole’s The Wasteland Saga will collect for the
first time in print his postapocalyptic trilogy The Old Man and the Wasteland, The
Savage Boy, and The Road is a River. Editor Gill says, “Harper Voyager loved the
different look at the apocalypse, and the literary allusions.”
Ian Douglas’ second book in his Star
Corpsman series, Abyss Deep, brings
elite Marines and Corpsmen to space where they gather intelligence on alien
enemies.
Here is the full article if you want to read more about the
future of the sf/fantasy genres, which happen to be my personal faves.
-Amanda