Also of interest... In flights into the fantastical

Also of interest... In flights into the fantastical

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INHERITANCE by Christopher Paolini _(Knopf, $28)_ SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE SIGN UP FOR THE WEEK'S FREE NEWSLETTERS From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. The final novel in Christopher Paolini’s _Inheritance Cycle_ will have fans “speed-reading” its 880 pages to find out the fate of the farmboy-turned-warrior Eragon and his blue dragon, said Yvonne Zipp in _The Washington Post._ Though the book “could have been tighter,” Paolini serves up a “propulsive plot and plenty of answers.” Parents might consider some of the violence a bit dark for young-adult readers, but “Paolini is hardly the worst offender” in that regard. OUT OF OZ by Gregory Maguire _(Morrow, $27)_ A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com By expanding the mythology behind L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Gregory Maguire has created “a land as rich as Middle-earth or Narnia,” said Brian Truitt in _USA Today._ The “satisfying finish” to Maguire’s Wicked Years saga begins as a bookend to Baum’s series, with “a motley crew traveling down the Yellow Brick Road.” Eighteen years after the “Matter of Dorothy,” Rain, the granddaughter of the Wicked Witch of the West, is traveling with friends old and new in search of her long-lost parents. THE NIGHT ETERNAL by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan _(Morrow, $27)_ Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan have written “the only truly worthy successor” to Anne Rice’s great vampire series, said Alan Cheuse in the _San Francisco Chronicle._ Their Strain trilogy, about a vampire plague that sweeps the world, reaches its climax with the evil vampire Master exploding nuclear warheads to plunge the world into permanent night. If you’re a bedtime reader, you may worry that the “light might never return.” IN OTHER WORLDS by Margaret Atwood _(Nan A. Talese, $25)_ Years after she “ruffled the feathers of sci-fi fans” by appearing to disavow the genre, Margaret Atwood has done a 180-degree turn, said John Williford in _The Miami Herald. In Other Worlds_ delves into the history of fantastical fiction and the origins of Atwood’s own interest in using its tools in such dystopian novels as _The Handmaid’s Tale_ and _Oryx and Crake._ The result is “a delightful read, full of Atwood’s well-honed prose and sly sense of humor.” Explore More Magazinebooks

INHERITANCE by Christopher Paolini _(Knopf, $28)_ SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE &


SAVE SIGN UP FOR THE WEEK'S FREE NEWSLETTERS From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning


news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. The final novel in Christopher Paolini’s _Inheritance Cycle_ will have fans


“speed-reading” its 880 pages to find out the fate of the farmboy-turned-warrior Eragon and his blue dragon, said Yvonne Zipp in _The Washington Post._ Though the book “could have been


tighter,” Paolini serves up a “propulsive plot and plenty of answers.” Parents might consider some of the violence a bit dark for young-adult readers, but “Paolini is hardly the worst


offender” in that regard. OUT OF OZ by Gregory Maguire _(Morrow, $27)_ A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com By expanding the


mythology behind L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Gregory Maguire has created “a land as rich as Middle-earth or Narnia,” said Brian Truitt in _USA Today._ The “satisfying finish” to Maguire’s


Wicked Years saga begins as a bookend to Baum’s series, with “a motley crew traveling down the Yellow Brick Road.” Eighteen years after the “Matter of Dorothy,” Rain, the granddaughter of


the Wicked Witch of the West, is traveling with friends old and new in search of her long-lost parents. THE NIGHT ETERNAL by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan _(Morrow, $27)_ Filmmaker


Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan have written “the only truly worthy successor” to Anne Rice’s great vampire series, said Alan Cheuse in the _San Francisco Chronicle._ Their


Strain trilogy, about a vampire plague that sweeps the world, reaches its climax with the evil vampire Master exploding nuclear warheads to plunge the world into permanent night. If you’re a


bedtime reader, you may worry that the “light might never return.” IN OTHER WORLDS by Margaret Atwood _(Nan A. Talese, $25)_ Years after she “ruffled the feathers of sci-fi fans” by


appearing to disavow the genre, Margaret Atwood has done a 180-degree turn, said John Williford in _The Miami Herald. In Other Worlds_ delves into the history of fantastical fiction and the


origins of Atwood’s own interest in using its tools in such dystopian novels as _The Handmaid’s Tale_ and _Oryx and Crake._ The result is “a delightful read, full of Atwood’s well-honed


prose and sly sense of humor.” Explore More Magazinebooks