Harry Dresden’s famous cover-art hat came from a publisher’s brief. Jim Butcher and Chris McGrath turned the mismatch into a joke that followed them into The Cinder Spires.
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Ryan Cahill’s next novella, The Truth, is listed for September 29, 2026, while a new hardcover edition of The Exile arrives in March 2027.
HBO has revealed three major new cast members for Harry Potter Season 2, including Dobby, Tom Riddle and a new Ginny Weasley. According to Variety’s announcement, Lenny Rush will play Dobby, Billy Barratt will play Tom Riddle, and Bonnie Hill will take over the role of Ginny Weasley when the series moves into its adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. They join another major Season 2 addition that was announced last month: Game of Thrones star Kit Harington as Gilderoy Lockhart. With four major Chamber of Secrets characters now cast, HBO is already putting much of its second-season cast together months before Season 1 even premieres. Lenny…
The Cosmere Cinematic Universe is continuing to progress before our very eyes, and we recently received more updates for both the upcoming Mistborn movie and Stormlight Archive show.
Joe Abercrombie is already 30,000 to 40,000 words into the third and final book in The Devils trilogy, while The Heretics is nearly finished.
Sierra Fleming looks remarkably like Vin and has spent years training for the chance to audition for Apple’s Mistborn adaptation. Did we find Vin before Hollywood?
Alix E. Harrow’s time-travel fantasy The Everlasting has won the 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Here is what the book is about, how it won and what readers should know before picking it up.
Last week we wrote that Robin Hobb was scheduled to read from an unpublished Realm of the Elderlings story at LACon V, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention. I was lucky enough to be there and for the first time in a while, we have a few real details to work with.
The story is a novella. It is currently being pulled together from a larger work in progress. And it is tentatively titled From Ash to Spark.
There are a lot of notable fantasy and science-fiction books arriving this week, including new releases from James Islington, Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson, Rachel Gillig, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Scott Hawkins.
Brandon Sanderson has confirmed which characters will remain important throughout Stormlight Archive Books 6-10, alongside the five new flashback leads.