Daniel José Older

Star Wars: The High Republic Is as Refreshing as It Is Familiar

The new Star Wars stories deliver what fans want while exploring new ideas.

The High Republic, a New Era of Star Wars Storytelling, Is Here

“For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.” Obi-Wan Kenobi said that to Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars all the way back in 1977. In the 40-plus years since then, we’ve seen lots of the…

A New Anthology Will Explore Every Inch of the Star Wars Universe

Following in a grand tradition for Star Wars books, Del Rey, Lucasfilm, and Disney have announced a new 40-story anthology which will explore the stories of background characters from A New Hope. Back in the old Expanded Universe books, this kind of ground was covered a lot by the “Tales From” series. Tales From Mos…

The Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Everyone’s Talking About In June

Looking for some awesome beach reads? Science fiction and fantasy have you covered. There’s a new Shannara book, a brand new Laurell K. Hamilton, and an Alistair Reynolds novella. Plus Scalzi’s next Old Man’s War book, and Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s Long Utopia. Here are all the books you can’t miss in June! The…

Your next urban fantasy TV or movie obsession? The other day, we reviewedDaniel Jose Older’s fun, inventive Half-Resurrection Blues. Now, the book’s been optioned for TV or movies by Tony Award-winning actor Anika Noni Rose (who also costars in The Good Wife).

An Urban Fantasy Novel That Shows Cities In A Way You’ve Never Seen

The urban fantasy genre isn’t just set in cities — it’s one of the main places that genre fiction engages with our urbanized existence, picking up the baton dropped by cyberpunk. But you don’t often see cities depicted the way Daniel José Older does in his new novel Half-Resurrection Blues. https://gizmodo.com/why-do-so-many-former-cyberpunk-authors-now-write-dark-5795217 Image via Daniel José…

In Salsa Nocturna Stories, the people of New York dance with the dead

Daniel José Older’s collection of short stories from Crossed Genres Publications, Salsa Nocturna Stories, gives us a glimpse at a supernatural New York that feels surprisingly realistic. The NYCOD’s (New York Council of the Dead) only half-alive agent Carlos hunts rule-breaking spirits animals through the city nights. The older musician Gordo communes with dancing spirits…