Victoria "V.E." Schwab V.E. Schwab has been called “the heir to Diana Wynne Jones.” She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic series, as well as a number of middle grade and…
Rebecca Serle is a full-time writer, which means she gets to wear pajamas to work. She went to the University of Southern California, then got her MFA from the New School in NYC. (She likes New York…
Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. His writing has appeared in Daily Science…
Christopher Huang grew up in Singapore, where he served his two years of National Service as an Army Signaller. He then moved to Canada where he studied Architecture at McGill University in Montréal…
Juliet McDaniel has an M.A. in Writing from DePaul University. Although raised in Arizona, she spent the last 25 years living in Chicago, where she currently resides with her partner and her cats. She…
Anne Youngson had a long, successful career in the motor industry before taking an early retirement to focus on her writing. She is currently studying for a PhD at Oxford Brookes. Anne and her husband…
Ruthanna Emrys lives in a mysterious manor house in the outskirts of Washington DC with her wife and their large, strange family. She makes home-made vanilla, obsesses about game design, gives…
Dr. Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a Ph.D. then a postdoc at the University of York before realizing that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed far more than…
Ian McDonald was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science…
C. L. Polk wrote her first story in grade school and still hasn't learned any better. After spending years in strange occupations and wandering western Canada, she settled in southern Alberta with her…
James Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).
Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different.
The Ending Writes Itself is a marvelous read. Clarke will keep readers guessing and reevaluating as information is revealed and the body count rises, right up to the very last page.
تأسست دار جنازات إيفانز منذ زمنٍ يُقارب عمر بلدة جنوب شرق تكساس التي تقع فيها. وهي مؤسسة عائلية تُدار وتُورث عبر الأجيال، من خلال نساء عائلة إيفانز. ومن بينهن دوسي، ربة الأسرة الحالية، وهي ابنة باي، الذي اختفى في ظروف غامضة قبل ثمانية عشر عامًا...
في عام ٢٠٢٠، عرّفت في. إي. شواب القراء على آدي لارو، الشابة التي تعقد صفقةً مشؤومةً لتجنب زواجٍ غير مرغوب فيه في فرنسا مطلع القرن الثامن عشر. في رواية "الحياة الخفية لآدي لارو"، تتابع شواب آدي عبر القرون، حيث تُشكّل آدي، بذكائها وقوة إرادتها،...
عندما كانت إيبوني "إيبي" فريمان في العاشرة من عمرها، كانت الشاهدة الوحيدة على عملية سطو فاشلة على منزلها، أسفرت عن مقتل شقيقها باز، البالغ من العمر خمسة عشر عامًا، رميًا بالرصاص، وتدمير إرث عائلي لا يُقدّر بثمن. وكون إيبي ابنة عائلة سوداء مرموقة...
تغيرت حياة داليا في صباح اليوم الذي عثرت فيه الخادمة على رسالة مطبوعة كُتب عليها: "استأجروا حارسًا جديدًا للمفاتيح؛ عاجل؛ قبل الفجر". كان جميع سكان منزل كابريشوس يعرفون معنى الرسالة ومن كتبها. كاتبتها هي سيدة منزل كابريشوس، السيدة أناتيما، وهي عنكبوت عملاقة نصف بشرية...
في لندن عام ١٩٢٤، يُستدعى لاو شي، الأكاديمي الشاب الخجول، إلى منزل عالم الرياضيات برتراند راسل. عند وصوله، يشرح راسل أن صديقه وزميله، القاضي دي رن جي، قد اعتُقل خطأً مع مجموعة من المحرضين الصينيين. يخشى راسل أن تُكشف هوية دي...
