Hero Forged (Ethereal Earth #1) by Josh Erikson You’re done with love.īut soon enough you will find yourself in the Smoke again, drawn back to the life you thought you’d left behind. You’re done with his daughter, Fel, and losing all the time. You’re done with Georgy Chernoy and his questionable defeat of death. You’re done with the people of the Bund, their easy superiority and unstoppable spread throughout the city of London and beyond. You’re done with the pretensions of the capital and its unfathomable architecture. As humans race to be the first of their kind to reach the stars, another Great War looms.įor you that means returning to Yorkshire and the town of your birth, where factories churn out the parts for gigantic spaceships. Mutual incomprehension has fractured the globe. Humanity has been split into three different species. So here they are! Fantasy-Faction’s Best Books of 2018! Enjoy! We could have easily come up with a top 100 list, but at some point I’m going to need leave the land of spreadsheets and Word docs and clean my house and make sure my husband and children are still alive. Gritty grimdark and fantastical fantasies.īelow are the highlights of the year as picked by our readers and contributors. Door-stopper novels and short but sweet novellas. There were fantastic debuts, continuations of series, and series that reached their final climax. Happy New Year Factioners! 2018 was a difficult year for many of us, but it was an amazing year for fantasy! Our nomination list was the longest it’s ever been and we had a super hard time deciding who would make the cut.

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