The novel isn’t a fixed concept. From its earliest incarnations to the modern day, writers have been playing with the fundamentals of the form, pushing boundaries and changing rules as they go. Sometimes these efforts are subtle, but sometimes they’re drastic, resulting in final works I like to call “anti-novels.” Anti-novels rewrite the rules of […]
We’ve already told you why you need to read Updraft, Fran Wilde’s debut fantasy; in brief: it’s an awesome teenage girl’s coming-of-age adventure, with a complex political undercurrent, set in an intriguing post-apocalyptic world in which society clings to life atop rising towers of living bone. It’s surprising, and scary, and fresh, and we can’t […]