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Book of Night by Holly Black
I’ve been a fan of Holly Black since before The Spiderwick Chronicles was made into a movie, which was quite a long time ago. Her books are usually quirky, edgy, occasionally dark fantasy, aimed at a...
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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao
On the surface, this book looks like just another rousing adventure for the video game generation. The First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, fails to take over the body of twelve-year-old, Chinese...
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Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
Babel is an extraordinary book: It is outstanding in its intelligence, precise prose, and undeniably new and creative system of magic. It is the story of the fall of the Tower of Babel at Oxford...
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Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
This is Ryka Aoki’s first genre SF/F novel, though she has published one previous novel and two poetry anthologies (both finalists for the Lambda Award). She is a trans woman of Japanese descent, a...
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Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki
Even after decades of watching every Hayao Miyazaki film that I could get my hands on, I hadn’t realized that he was a peerless artist who began his career as a manga writer and illustrator. Shuna’s...
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Two New Manga Titles for 2023
Touring After the Apocalypse, by Sakae Saito Youko, a young girl who is apparently the last living human, is on a motorcycle tour of a ruined Japan, accompanied by her cyborg guardian, Airi. She is...
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Two More New Manga Titles for 2023
I couldn’t get the formatting to work, so I divided this post and added another title! Magic Teacher, by Rui Sekai and Kyou KitazawaThe actual title (I Got Fired as a Court Wizard so Now I’m Moving to...
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MINICON!!!
April 7-9, 2023 Minicon is put on by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society every year during Easter weekend. This is the 56th year of Minicon. DreamHaven’s very own Greg Ketter is fan guest of honor!...
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
This is the story of three kids from Nola—an alternate, post-apocalyptic New Orleans, where music is magic, the dead drive taxis, and graffiti comes alive—who fight a great evil in the form of a...
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This is a note to let you know that as of today, our flat-rate postage has gone up to $6.00. We stuck by our five-dollar rate through several rises in postage rates, but finally had to boost it. As...
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Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
I’ve been a fan of Francis Hardinge’s wonderful, morally complex novels for young adults since reading The Lie Tree, which won a Costa Book Award for Children’s Book (best novel by an author residing...
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Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
This is another insightful fairytale by one of my current favorite authors. It begins with a poetic but rather dark tale—because it would be terribly uncomfortable to make a dog out of bones or a...
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
What? You’ve never heard of the legendary pirate, Amina Al-Sirafi? Whose gold-toothed smile and enormous figure was the last thing seen by who-knows-how-many men? The nakhudha of the infamous ship,...
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Noragami by Adachitoka
Noragami is one of my favorite manga/anime series. Kodansha Comics has been releasing an omnibus edition (three volumes in one), so all the early volumes (from 1 to 15, so far, with 15 to 18 on the...
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The Counterclockwise Heart by Brian Farrey
One of the hardest things to do, I think, in writing middle grade fantasy, is to give children adventures where they are truly challenged but can still reasonably defeat some great evil. It’s even...
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs
This is the first novel by Emma Torzs, but she is not a newcomer to the fantasy genre. She attended Clarion West and has written several short stories, including ‘Like a River Loves the Sky’ which won...
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Theseus by Jordan Holt
For all of you lovers of Greek mythology, Jordan Holt’s graphic novel Theseus promises a retelling of the story of Theseus’ life, based on the ancient writings of Plutarch. For all of you lovers of...
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The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook . . . by Brandon Sanderson
I’ve been hearing great things about Brandon Sanderson from his many fans for some time. I read his Mistborn Series a long time ago and quite liked it. But I have to admit that I have not been in a...
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Three Manga that Explore Gender
I Want to be a Wall by Honami Shirono Yuriko Sonoda is an asexual woman, a big fan of the 2-D relationships in Boy’s Love manga. Hanazono is a gay man who has never admitted to his crush on his...
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Featuring Blue Delliquanti
On Saturday, August 26, DreamHaven will be hosting “An Afternoon With Independent Graphic Novel Artists Creators.” We have four guests scheduled to display their work and meet their fans from 2 to 4...
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