Airs Beneath the Moon Will Enchant Fantasy Readers and Horse Enthusiasts SEATTLE–When readers return to stores with gift cards and unwanted holiday items, they’ll find a new gift waiting for them on bookstore shelves: Toby Bishop’s novel of women and winged horses. Released on Dec. 26, Airs Beneath the Moon is the story of a farm girl who...

Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Octavia E Butler died suddenly Saturday, a victim of an apparent stroke. At age 58, she had achieved much more than once would expect from a dyslexic African American lesbian born to a shoe shiner. For her work, she had been awarded two Nebula and Hugo awards. Below is an excerpt from her bibliography at...

It appears that UK author Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials Trilogy) is not fan of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series. The Narnia tales, a series of seven stories written by Lewis, at the time best known as a Christian studies scholar, are touted as fantasy morality tales. Like Lewis, Pullman is best known among readers as a writer of fantasy...