Leigh Bardugo was already a breathtakingly successful fantasy writer before her first adult novel, Ninth House, was released in 2019. You know you’re safe in their hands whether the fantasy is epic, urban, or otherwise. Jemisin, Naomi Novik, and Samantha Shannon. Recent examples include Rebecca Roanhorse, N.K. Only a handful of impressive fantasy authors excel at both. Others sketch the outlines of a world that looks much like ours on the surface, then seamlessly weave fantastical elements throughout. Some authors in the genre excel at putting fantasy first, creating new worlds so different from our own that they have their own geography, magic, culture, conventions, and language. Fantasy is all about situating the reader in a compelling fictional world, but some worlds are more fictional than others.
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