New Books in Fantasy

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/fantasy

Episode Date
Exploring Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Fantasy Masterpiece
Sep 20, 2026
M. H. Ayinde, "A Song of Legends Lost" (Saga Press, 2025)
Aug 11, 2026
M. A. Carrick, "The Eye of Leviathan" (Orbit, 2026)
Jul 12, 2026
David Ly, "Not All Dragons" (Poplar Press, 2026)
Jun 30, 2026
Justin C. Key, "The Hospital at the End of the World: A Novel" (Harper, 2026)
Jun 13, 2026
Shannon Chakraborty, "The Tapestry of Fate" (Harper Voyager, 2026)
May 12, 2026
Peter Darbyshire, "The Wonder Lands War" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
May 07, 2026
Lauren J.A. Bear, "Aphrodite in Pieces" (Ace, 2026)
Apr 21, 2026
Cameron Sullivan, "The Red Winter" (Tor Books, 2026)
Apr 03, 2026
Nicole Glover, "The Starseekers: A Murder and Magic Novel" (Harper Voyager, 2026)
Mar 07, 2026
Mia Tsai, "The Memory Hunters" (Erewhon Books, 2025)
Jan 23, 2026
Caskey Russell, "The Door on the Sea" (Solaris, 2025)
Oct 15, 2025
Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jul 21, 2025
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)
Jun 29, 2025
Katherine Addison, "The Tomb of Dragons" (Tor Books, 2025)
May 13, 2025
Caitlin Starling, "The Oblivion Bride" (Neon Hemlock Press, 2025)
Mar 31, 2025
Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024) This
Dec 23, 2024
Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024
Recall This Story: Ivan Kreilkamp on Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle" (JP)
Dec 05, 2024
P. Djèlí Clark on Why He Writes
Oct 14, 2024
Cami D. Agan, "Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium" (Mythopoeic Press, 2024)
Oct 12, 2024
Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024)
Aug 02, 2024
Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024
Dana Elmendorf, "In the Hour of Crows" (Mira Books, 2024)
Jun 23, 2024
C. J. Spataro, "More Strange Than True" (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2024)
Jun 15, 2024
Eliza Chan, "Fathomfolk" (Orbit, 2024)
May 08, 2024
Rachel Greenlaw, "Compass and Blade" (Inkyard Press, 2024)
Apr 12, 2024
Alix E. Harrow, "Starling House" (Tor Books, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Bradley P. Beaulieu, "The Dragons of Deepwood Fen" (Daw Books, 2023)
Dec 05, 2023
Wole Talabi, "Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon" (Daw Books, 2023)
Nov 19, 2023
Hannah Kaner, "Godkiller" (Harper Voyager, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])
Sep 07, 2023
Aparna Verma, "The Phoenix King" (Orbit, 2023)
Aug 28, 2023
Garth Nix, "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer" (Harper Voyager, 2023)
Aug 23, 2023
Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, "The Witch and the Tsar" (Ace Books, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023
M. A. Carrick, "Labyrinth's Heart" (Orbit, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023
T. Kingfisher, "Thornhedge" (Tor, 2023)
Aug 03, 2023
L. R. Lam, "Dragonfall" (DAW, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
Melvin Burgess, "Loki: A Novel" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
May 04, 2023
Daniel M. Ford, "The Warden" (Tor, 2023)
Apr 18, 2023
Kelly Barnhill, "The Crane Husband" (Tordotcom, 2023)
Mar 26, 2023
Olivia Atwater, "Half a Soul" (Orbit, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Hadeer Elsbai, "The Daughters of Izdihar" (Harper Voyager, 2023)
Jan 10, 2023
Christopher M. Hood, "The Revivalists" (Harper, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Tanvi Berwah, "Monsters Born and Made" (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Marion Deeds, "Comeuppance Served Cold" (Tordotcom, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
R. F. Kuang, "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution" (Harper Voyager, 2022)
Aug 18, 2022
Foz Meadows, "A Strange and Stubborn Endurance" (Tor Books, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
Richard Swan, "The Justice of Kings" (Orbit, 2022)
Jun 27, 2022
Cassandra Rose Clarke, "The Beholden" (Erewhon Books, 2022)
May 26, 2022
Hester Fox, "A Lullaby for Witches" (Graydon House Books, 2022)
May 02, 2022
78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
Apr 07, 2022
Sara A. Mueller, "Bone Orchard" (Tor Books, 2022)
Apr 04, 2022
G. R. Macallister, "Scorpica" (Gallery / Saga Press, 2022)
Mar 24, 2022
Peng Shepherd, "The Cartographers" (William Morrow, 2021)
Mar 15, 2022
David R. Slayton, "Trailer Park Trickster" (Blackstone, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Sue Lynn Tan, "Daughter of the Moon Goddess" (Harper Voyager, 2022)
Jan 11, 2022
Rin Chupeco, "Wicked As You Wish" (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020)
Dec 01, 2021
Greta Kelly, "The Seventh Queen: A Novel" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Nov 01, 2021
Jennifer Estep, "Capture the Crown" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021
Matt Bell, "Appleseed" (Custom House, 2021)
Aug 10, 2021
P. Djèlí Clark, "A Master of Djinn" (Tordotcom, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Ava Reid, "The Wolf and the Woodsman" (Harper Voyager, 2021)
Jun 08, 2021
Andrea Stewart, "The Bone Shard Daughter: The Drowning Empire Book One" (Hachette, 2020)
May 10, 2021
Greta Kelly, "The Frozen Crown" (Harper Voyager, 2020)
Apr 15, 2021
Anne Marie Lutz, "Taylenor" (Hydra, 2019)
Mar 29, 2021
Seanan McGuire, "Across the Green Grass Fields" (Tor.com, 2021)
Mar 05, 2021
Mike Chen, "We Could Be Heroes" (Mira Books, 2021)
Feb 02, 2021
Ilona Andrews, "Emerald Blaze: A Hidden Legacy Novel" (Avon Books, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Evan Winter, "The Fires of Vengeance" (Orbit Books, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
S. J. Hartland, "The 19th Bladesman" (Dark Blade, 2018)
Nov 11, 2020
Menna Van Praag, "The Sisters Grimm" (Harper Voyager, 2020)
Oct 09, 2020
Premee Mohamed, "Beneath The Rising" (Solaris, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020
Laura Ruby, "Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All" (Balzer and Bray, 2019)
Aug 11, 2020
Emily B. Martin, "Sunshield: A Novel" (Harper Voyager, 2020)
Jul 13, 2020
Kathleen Jennings, "Flyaway" (Tor.com, 2020)
Jun 29, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
S. M. Hardy, "The Evil Within" (Allison and Busby, 2020)
May 22, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Keren Landsman, "The Heart of the Circle" (Angry Robot, 2019)
Apr 20, 2020
Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020
Carrie Vaughn, "The Immortal Conquistador" (Tachyon Publications, 2020)
Mar 17, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Gabrielle Mathieu, "Girl of Fire" (Five Directions Press, 2019)
Feb 20, 2020
Sarah Kozloff, "A Queen in Hiding" (Tor, 2020)
Feb 03, 2020
Priya Sharm, "Ormeshadow" (Tor.com, 2019)
Jan 20, 2020
Christopher Brown, "Rule of Capture" (Harper Voyager, 2019)
Dec 20, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Emily Roberson, "Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters" (FSG, 2019)
Oct 23, 2019
Melissa Albert, "The Hazel Wood" (Flatiron Books, 2018)
Sep 06, 2019
Eyal Kless, "The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chronicles" (Harper Voyager, 2019)
Jul 30, 2019
Sharon Shinn, "Echo in Onyx: Uncommon Echoes" (Audible Studios, 2019)
Jul 04, 2019
R. Scott Boyer, "Bobby Ether and the Jade Academy" (2013)
May 31, 2019
R. F. Kuang, "The Poppy War" (Harper Voyager, 2019)
May 29, 2019
Madeline Miller, "Circe" (Little, Brown and Company, 2018)
Apr 08, 2019
Matthew Binder, "The Absolved" (Black Spot Books, 2018)
Mar 21, 2019
Yang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
Feb 06, 2019
Marshall Ryan Maresca, "The Way of the Shield" (DAW, 2018)
Jan 30, 2019
Lauren C. Teffeau, "Implanted" (Angry Robot, 2018)
Dec 18, 2018
Anthony Ryan, “The Empire of Ashes” (Ace, 2018)
Nov 16, 2018
Sam Hooker, “The Winter Riddle” (Black Spot Books, 2018)
Nov 02, 2018
Bernard Cornwell, “War of the Wolf” (Harper, 2018)
Oct 02, 2018
Cat Rambo, “Hearts of Tabat” (WordFire Press, 2018)
Aug 15, 2018
Julia Fine, “What Should be Wild” (Harper, 2018)
Jul 31, 2018
Danielle Teller, “All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother” (William Morrow, 2018)
Jun 07, 2018
Patrice Sarath, “The Sisters Mederos” (Angry Robot, 2018)
Apr 19, 2018
Ryan Wieser, “The Glass Blade” (Kensington, 2018)
Mar 14, 2018
Jo Woolf, “The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration” (Sandstone Press, 2018)
Mar 02, 2018
Jason Arnopp, “The Last Days of Jack Sparks” (Orbit, 2016)
Jan 15, 2018
Octavia Randolph, “Silver Hammer, Golden Cross” (Pyewacket Press, 2017)
Dec 12, 2017
Claude Lalumiere, “Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment” (Guernica Editions, 2017)
Oct 25, 2017
Megan Haskell, “Sanyare: The Rebel Apprentice, Vol. 3” (Trabuco Ridge Press, 2017)
Sep 18, 2017
Linnea Hartsuyker, “The Half-Drowned King” (Harper, 2017)
Aug 23, 2017
James Morrow, “The Asylum of Dr. Caligari” (Tachyon Publications, 2017)
Aug 13, 2017
Linda Nagata, “The Last Good Man” (Mythic Island Press, 2017)
Jul 20, 2017
David Kushner, “Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D” (Nation Books, 2017)
Jun 23, 2017
Michael Witwer, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Jun 19, 2017
Gabrielle Mathieu, “The Falcon Flies Alone” (Five Directions Press, 2016)
Jun 18, 2017
Nicky Drayden, “The Prey of Gods” (Harper Voyager, 2017)
Jun 13, 2017
David M. Ewalt, “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and The People Who Play It” (Scribner, 2013)
May 26, 2017
Assaph Mehr, “Murder in Absentia: A Story of Togas, Daggers, and Magic” (Purple Toga Publications, 2015)
May 19, 2017
Aliette de Bodard, “The House of Binding Thorns” (Ace, 2017)
Apr 07, 2017
Katherine Addison, “The Goblin Emperor” (Tor Books, 2014)
Nov 08, 2015
Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Feb 14, 2014