Books by Samantha Shannon
Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her most recent Bone Season novel, The Mask Falling, was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in London.
“The Bone Season is Samantha Shannon’s first book. It’s a really intriguing kind of science fiction: it’s an alternate present, derived from a different history in the 19th century. We end up with this very alluring, strange version of the present, where people are often born with different kinds of magic. But if you have the wrong kinds of talents, you’re often arrested and sent to Oxford, which is run by very strange supernatural beings, one of whom is called the Warden. Wardens are what Oxford colleges have instead of headmasters. He’s a magnetic figure. A young writer meets him quite early on and is deeply unimpressed; she’s been imprisoned and sent to this centre, this penal colony essentially, that is Oxford in this alternate version of now. It’s one of those lovely slow-burn romances where you think, ‘Oh, no, you shouldn’t – oh, this is really bad.'” Read more...
The Best Sci-Fi Romance Novels
Natasha Pulley, Novelist
Interviews with Samantha Shannon
The Best Mythopoeic Fantasy, recommended by Samantha Shannon
Fantasy writers often create vivid, intricately detailed worlds in which their stories unfold. Rich mythmaking of this kind often features alternative religions, languages and cultures, and is known among fans and scholars as ‘mythopoeia’. Here, Samantha Shannon—author of the internationally bestselling The Bone Season sequence—recommends five of the best mythopoeic fantasy books.
Interviews where books by Samantha Shannon were recommended
The Best Sci-Fi Romance Novels, recommended by Natasha Pulley
Sci fi opens up new possibilities for romance stories, unconstrained by social reality. It’s an exciting time for the genre, says Natasha Pulley, bestselling author of The Mars House. Through her five contemporary favourites, she explores how human emotion – including romantic love and friendship – elevates the best sci-fi novels, creating stories with realism and depth.
