Best Fantasy Writers Today - April 2024

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

• ASIN: B01M9I7CRC
• ASIN: B01M9I7CRC
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle)

Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle.   “I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda • “He’s bloody good, this Rothfuss guy.” —George R. R. Martin • “Rothfuss has real talent.” —Terry Brooks   DAY TWO: THE WISE MAN’S FEAR   “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”   My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me.   So begins a tale told from his own point of view—a story unequaled in fantasy literatu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0756407915
• ASIN: 0756407915
• ISBN: 9780756407919
• Brand: Patrick Rothfuss
• Manufacturer: DAW

The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01A4ATV0A
• ASIN: B01A4ATV0A
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1

This is the way the world ends. For the last time. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great, red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal,and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. A new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award-nominated author N. K. Jemisin.

• ASIN: B012H8111O
• ASIN: B012H8111O
• Manufacturer: Hachette Audio

Oathbringer

The eagerly awaited sequel to the New York Times best-selling Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times best-selling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost. The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient p... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071V7W5S1
• ASIN: B071V7W5S1
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio

Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Now Write! Series)

Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh out an enthralling fantasy quest, or dream up a bloodcurdling plot twist, including:-Harlan Ellison (R), on crafting the perfect story title-Jack Ketchum, on how economy of language helps create a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 039916555X
• ASIN: 039916555X
• ISBN: 039916555X
• Brand: Tarcher
• Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

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• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Drums of Autumn

Cast ashore in the American Colonies, Claire and Jamie Fraser are faced with a bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in a New World--shadowed by Claire's knowledge of the coming revolution. Reissue.

• ASIN: 044022425X
• ASIN: 044022425X
• ISBN: 9780440224259
• Brand: Dell Publishers
• Manufacturer: Dell

The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

• ASIN: B007978OY6
• ASIN: B007978OY6
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Heroes of Olympus, Book Five The Blood of Olympus

Though the Greek and Roman crewmembers of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen-all of them-and they're stronger than ever. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood-the blood of Olympus-in order to wake. The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within striking distance. Though it is tempting to take the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1423146786
• ASIN: 1423146786
• ISBN: 1423146786
• Brand: Riordan Rick
• Manufacturer: Disney-Hyperion

Stories of Your Life and Others

• ASIN: 1101972122
• ASIN: 1101972122
• ISBN: 1101972122
• Brand: Ingramcontent
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Classics)

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's important writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0785834206
• ASIN: 0785834206
• ISBN: 0785834206
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

What makes the difference between failure and success? Join David Ponder on his incredible journey to discover the Seven Decisions for Success that can turn any life around, no matter how hopeless a situation may seem. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller, The Traveler’s Gift is the continuation of David Ponder’s story in The Traveler’s Summit.   

• ASIN: 0785264280
• UPC: 020049024911
• ASIN: 0785264280
• ISBN: 0785264280
• Brand: Hyperion EA
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Cat's Cradle: A Novel

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.“[Vonnegut is]... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038533348X
• ASIN: 038533348X
• ISBN: 038533348X
• Brand: Penguin Random House
• Manufacturer: Dell Publishing

Lightning Thief, The (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

• ASIN: B00280LYIC
• ASIN: B00280LYIC
• Manufacturer: Disney Hyperion

Writers of the Future Volume 31 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Presents a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by the winners of the 2014 "Writers of the Future" contest chosen by a distinguished panel of top writers, critics, and

• UPC: 43905908
• Rating: 4.267

Writers of the Future Volume 29 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Turn the page open your eyes...and look into the future They unleash the power of dreams and unlock the secrets of the universe. They bend time, twist perception, and put a new spin on the

• UPC: 23778891
• Rating: 4.5

Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror : Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

"Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now

• UPC: 26350202

Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers - eBook

Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories—the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profaneIt's an elemental, almost animalistic urge—the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals,

• UPC: 243117601
• Rating: 5.0

Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers

"An anthology that will explore the birth experience from a wide-ranging group of esteemed writers (including Julia Glass, Lauren Groff, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, and others), with all the force, frankness, humor, and honesty that the

• UPC: 29459397
• Rating: 5.0

Writers of the Future Volume 34 : The Best New Sci Fi and Fantasy Short Stories of the Year

"Presenting this year's collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters. Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests blue-ribbon judges search the world to discover and introduce to you the

• UPC: 556311013

Million Writers Award : The Best Online Science Fiction and Fantasy

Million Writers Award: The Best Online Science Fiction and Fantasy [Jun 04, 2012] Sanford,

• UPC: 418474385

Future Imperfect: Best of Wily Writers, volume 2 - eBook

The best speculative fiction published in 2010 at WilyWriters.com includes the following stories:..."Loathsome Alyce" by Sheila Crosby..."Memory in the Time of Bones" by Nathan Crowder..."Complete Artistic control by Bruce Boston..."Miriam's Song" by Larry Lefkowitz...“9 Curzon

• UPC: 118620619

Now Write! Mysteries : Suspense, Crime, Thriller, and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

"Now Write!: Mysteries" is the essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno-thrillers, cozies, and everything in between, featuring never-before-published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery

• UPC: 16895482

Now Write! Nonfiction : Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers

An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more! Beginners and seasoned writers alike

• UPC: 10989034