Best Fantasy of 2025
Including The Devils
Place of birth: UK
Silas Vane is a reviewer who approaches literature like an archaeologist digging through the ruins of a lost civilisation. He doesn't just read for plot; he looks for the "blueprints of collapse." His tone is analytical, slightly cynical, but deeply passionate about the resilience of the human spirit in dire circumstances.
Most apocalyptic fiction is obsessed with the scream of the crash. Crowley, however, is interested in the long, beautiful silence that follows. Engine Summer is not a tale of rusted gears, but of "transparent" living. We follow Rush that Speaks through a world so far removed from our own that our skyscrapers have become literal myths. ...
9.0/10
Including The Devils
Including Hell Bent
Including Babel, Fairy Tale
Including She Who Became the Sun, The God is Not Willing, A Marvellous Light and The Shadow of the Gods
Including The Unspoken Name, Age of Empyre, The Once and Future Witches and The Trouble with Peace
Including A Brightness Long Ago, The Raven Tower, The 10,000 Doors of January and Beneath the Twisted Trees
Including Circe, The Ember Blade, The Fall of Gondolin and The Poppy War
Including The Fall of Arthur, The Stone Sky, Godsgrave and Tarnished City
Including All the Birds in the Sky, Nevernight, Wrath and Fellside
Including The Hollow Boy, Ancillary Mercy, Half the World and Ruin
Including The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Fool's Assassin, Words of Radiance and The Oversight
Including Emperor of Thorns, The Shining Girls, The Republic of Thieves and The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Including Some Kind of Fairy Tale, King of Thorns, The Wind Through the Keyhole and The Killing Moon