In his Magicians trilogy, writer Lev Grossman put his own spin on the portal fantasy genre.
And now, with his new epic fantasy novel The Bright Sword (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), Grossman is doing the same — albeit in a very different way — to the legends of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table.
In the following email interview, Grossman discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why it’s about Arty and not some other King.
Of all the things people have suggested to solve England’s Brexit mistake, none have been as clever or as rife with televisual possibilities as Thomas D. Lee’s modern fantasy take on King Arthur and The Knights Of The Round Table, Perilous Times (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Lee discusses what else inspired and influenced this fantasy tale.
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table has been told and retold, and in many different ways, from Monty Python to Bugs Bunny to the Transformers. And yet none of them have Arty getting coffee…until now. Which is just one of the interesting revelations in the following email interview with Swapna Krisha and Jenn Northington, the co-editors of the new Arthurian short story collection Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
I could go on a whole long rant about how important women in fiction and history are often sidelined in favor of their male counterparts, but there ain’t enough time in the day. So, instead, I’d like to present the following email interview with writer Natania Barron, whose new fantasy novel, Queen Of None (paperback, Kindle) is the legend of King Arthur as told through the eyes of his sister Anna.