New post - Summer Genre Reading Suggestions 2020

[SFFWorld]

I normally put one of these articles out at SFFWorld about now. So it was a bit of a shock today to realise that I hadn’t written this already. (Thank you for the reminder, sfinx!) The Summer* seems to have crept up on me this year – anyone guess why? I must admit that I…

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[cgw]

I have a couple questions on your summer reading list:
1. What makes the following books "fantasy"? (as opposed to alt. history or regular fiction) (I can't tell from the descriptions)
City of a Thousand Faces
Kingdom of Liars
Legacy of Ash

2. I love Abercrombie. Great writer. But is A Little Hatred more of the same? Or is it fresh?

 

[Hobbit]

Good questions, cgw.

All three of the first three have magic or something like magic in them. It's not always overt, but it's there.

2. This is different as it moves Abercrombie's world to a land less medieval and more Industrial Revolution. Things are changing and not everyone likes that... but it is written in that Abercrombie style, difficult to define and imitate.

Hope that helps.

M