Top New Fantasy Books in December 2022

| November 30, 2021 |

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December 2021'southward most anticipated fantasy books include the adjacent installments of ballsy silkpunk and urban fantasy—plus the inspiration for Netflix's The Untamed ! Check out our meridian picks.

The Veiled Throne past Ken Liu

Type: Novel
Publisher: Saga Printing
Release appointment: December. 7

Den of Geek says: Ken Liu's dynamic silkpunk fantasy serial amps up for the quartet'southward decision side by side year…

Publisher's summary: With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the globe has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this tertiary volume of the "magnificent fantasy epic" (NPR).

Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journeying to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset past adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting affair. Simply is non letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable?

In Dara, the Lyucu leadership likewise as the surviving Dandelion Courtroom bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and Pékyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will accept years to blossom. Volition tradition yield to new justifications for power?

Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the air current, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new historic period.

Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from theAeneid to theRomance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Type: Novel
Publisher: Vii Seas
Release date: Dec. 14

Den of Geek says: If you swooned over Netflix'due south sweeping fantasy series The Untamed , get ready for this English language-language translation (with illustrations!) of the epic WangXian love story.

Publisher'south summary: As well known every bit MDZS, the blockbuster danmei/Boys' Honey novels from Prc that inspired comics, blitheness, and the alive-action serial The Untamed —which clustered billions of views, including on Netflix!

This historical fantasy tale of two powerful men who find each other through life and death is now in English, for the very starting time time.

Wei Wuxian was in one case one of the most outstanding men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts, knowledge, and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek a new power through demonic tillage, the world's respect for his skills turned to fearfulness, and his eventual expiry was celebrated throughout the land.

Years later, he awakens in the body of an aggrieved boyfriend who sacrifices his soul and then that Wei Wuxian can exact revenge on his behalf. Though granted a second life, Wei Wuxian is not free from his first, nor the mysteries that appear earlier him now. Yet this fourth dimension, he'll face it all with the righteous and esteemed Lan Wangji at his side, another powerful cultivator whose unwavering dedication and shared memories of their past volition assist smoothen a light on the dark truths that surroundings them.

This Chinese xianxia fantasy novel serial built around the romanticized beloved between ii men (danmei) has been translated into numerous languages and spawned a multimedia franchise that has taken the earth by storm, including the massively popular live-action series The Untamedavailable now on Netflix, YouTube, and more. The Seven Seas English language-language edition volition include exclusive, all-new embrace art from Jin Fang (jinzillaa), interior illustrations from Marina Privalova (BaoshanKaro), and a translation by Suika (yummysuika) with editor Pengie (pengiesama).

Buy Grandmaster of Demonic Tillage: Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. ane by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu.

The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman

Blazon: Novel
Publisher: Ace
Release date: Dec. 28

Den of Geek says: In the eighth installment of Genevieve Cogman'due south Invisible Library series, a parallel universe-hopping Librarian must save not just precious books, but also a precious homo life.

Publisher's summary: In this thrilling historical fantasy, fourth dimension-traveling Librarian spy Irene will need to delve deep into a tangled web of loyalty and power to keep her friends safe.Irene is trying to larn the truth about Alberich—and the possibility that he's her father. But when the Library orders her to impale him, and and then Alberich himself offers to sign a truce, she has to notice why he originally betrayed the Library.

With her allies endangered and her strongest loyalties nether threat, she'll have to trace his past across multiple worlds and into the depths of mythology and folklore, to find the truth at the middle of the Library, and why the Library was starting time created.

Buy The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman.