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To view this email as a web page, go [here.]( [Tor.com Newsletter]( [Forward to a Friend]( RETURN TO MALAZAN [Malazan Refresher: Everything You Need to Know Before Reading The God Is Not Willing]( Welcome back to the Malazan Empire! This time, Bill Capossere will be picking up the story roughly a decade after the events of The Crippled God. Before he dives into discussion of Steven Erikson’s The God Is Not Willing (TGINW), we thought it prudent to offer up a bit of a refresher on what’s what, where’s where, and who’s who, not to mention who is still alive, who’s dead, who is still dead, who was alive then dead then alive again and is still alive, who was alive then dead then, well...you get the idea. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( ONE OF THE GREATS [Art, Myth, and Magic Come Alive in Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife]( Terri Windling’s influence over modern fantasy is incalculable. Her work as a writer, editor, anthologist, curator, and artist has shaped the direction of fantastic fiction. With such a wealth of contributions to the genre to consider, it’s possible to overlook her 1996 fantasy novel The Wood Wife—but Jonathan Thornton is here to make sure that doesn’t happen, delving into what makes the novel a modern classic. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( E-BOOK CLUB [Download a Free eBook of Gideon the Ninth This Bonestober—Before October 9th!]( This part is usually where we sing the accolades of the current book selection, but author Charles Stross sums it up best: “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” This Bonestober, download a FREE copy of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, the first book in The Locked Tomb series, available in the US and Canada until 11:59 PM (ET) on October 8th. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( CLASSIC SCI-FI [Asimov’s Foundation and Finding Hope in Crisis]( After a troubled childhood, Ben Gierhart discovered Isaac Asimov’s Foundation in high school, and it was a revelation: “‘This is the best book I’ve ever read,’ I said definitively, despite the fact that if someone had asked me why I felt that way I don’t think I would have been able to answer.” Revisiting the novel years later, Gierhart reflects on how it continues to resonate, inspire, and offer hope in the current moment. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( CHEAT CODE [I Sold My Soul to Arcade Satan for the YA Horror Novel Game Over]( Sometimes, as you’re reading a book you expected to love, you realize you’ve outgrown it. And sometimes a book helps you realize you’re leaving a whole worldview behind. In the latest entry in our Close Reads column, author Henry Hoke looks back at an unusual encounter with the Devil...in the pages of a YA horror novel. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( MARK AS READ [The Libraries of Who We Are]( The books we choose to keep—to read to pieces, to pack, to move, to give them pride of place on a shelf—they tell a story about who we are. (The books we choose to leave behind do, too.) In the latest addition to her Mark as Read column, Molly Templeton talks about how our books become part of who we are. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( FOR YOUR BOOKSHELF [Five African-Inspired YA Fantasy Novels]( Africa is a large continent with over fifty countries, but it’s only in recent years that fiction has allowed Black voices to really shine and be heard. While we still have a ways to go before the playing field is level, allow Within These Wicked Walls author Lauren Blackwood to provide you with a Fantasy Starter Set into the beauty and power of Africa and its many cultures. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( ANGELS? IN THIS ECONOMY? [Religious Horror and Horrific Religion in Midnight Mass]( The subgenre of religious horror has already produced landmark works like Rosemary’s Baby, Hereditary, and The Exorcist, and it’s given us the towering love story of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Now Mike Flanagan has added a modern masterpiece to the canon with Midnight Mass—a series as heartfelt as it is horrific. Leah Schnelbach takes a look at how Flanagan and his team use religious iconography to tell a haunting story of faith and fear. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( IT'S GETTING HOT [The Solarpunk Future: Five Essential Works of Climate-Forward Fiction]( Solarpunk stories take place in futures where humanity, technology, and nature live in harmony rather than in conflict. They often deal with hypothetical technological innovations that help humanity avert or creatively adapt to climate change. And while solarpunk tales don’t necessarily take place in utopias, Justine Norton-Kertson points out that they are overflowing with hopeful characters and communities optimistically striving to create a new and better world. [Read more]( SHARE THIS: [Publish to Facebook]( [Publish to Twitter]( Follow Tor.com to get updates on all of our original fiction. 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