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We’re Back—And Giving Away Free Books!
You may have noticed: The Ranting Dragon has been offline for almost two weeks. The downtime was definitely involuntary—we tried to move to a bigger host that’s better capable of handling all of you...
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The Cover Battle of 2012: Phase 1, Round 1
This December, The Ranting Dragon is trying something new: an epic cover battle! We will pitch sixty of the best covers of the year against each other—half of these selected by our team, the other half...
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The Cover Battle of 2012: Phase 2, Round 1
The second phase in the Cover Battle of 2012 is here! From a total of sixty covers, only twenty are left. These twenty are divided over two rounds of ten covers each. The four covers with the most...
View ArticleThe Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson has had a meteoric and well-deserved rise in the fantasy genre within the last decade. He has published more than a dozen novels, was chosen to finish Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time...
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The Emperor’s Soul vs. Wide Open — Cover Battle Quarter Finals!
There have been two phases and a total of seven rounds in which your vote has reduced the competition in this Cover Battle of 2012 from sixty to eight covers. These eight covers have now reached the...
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Fifty Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels to Look Forward to in 2013
I think we can all agree that 2012 was a pretty great year for fans of speculative fiction. Well, we’re here to tell you that 2013 will be even better. No, seriously, it will be! If you don’t believe...
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Ten Reasons Why 2013 Will be Epic!
Happy new year to all of our readers! Last year was an amazing year, but that’s behind us now. Let’s make 2013 even better! I wish you all nothing but happiness and prosperity for the new year. May all...
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Top 20 Best Speculative Fiction Novels of 2012
It’s that time of year again, the time when every book review site tells you what their favorite books of the year were. At The Ranting Dragon, we’re quite proud of this year’s list. Thanks to our very...
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Top Twenty Most Anticipated Novels of January 2013
As our regular readers have come to expect from last year, The Ranting Dragon will be serving you a list of the most anticipated fantasy and science fiction releases for every month of 2013. This year,...
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Thoughts on Gender, Sexuality, and Sexism
When The Ranting Dragon hosted the Cover Battle of 2012 in December, I vowed to myself that I would be an impartial host. Like anyone else, of course I had my own favorites, but I wasn’t going to tell...
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The Hobbit is The Great Fantasy Novel!
After nearly two months of nominations, The Ranting Dragon’s search for The Great Fantasy Novel is almost at an end. All that remains is to decide which of the nominations deserves to win the title of...
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Top 30 Most-Anticipated Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels Coming in 2014
While 2013 was an unfortunately quiet year for The Ranting Dragon, it sure wasn’t quiet for speculative fiction. There were so many great books last year that it seems near impossible for this list to...
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Top 20 Best Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels of 2013
Wow, I can’t believe this is the fourth time already that we’re posting a list of our favorite novels of the year. And what a year 2013 was! The speculative genre, with all its varying subgenres, is...
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Ten Fantasy and Science-Fiction Novels Worth Reading in March 2014
One of The Ranting Dragon’s missions is to provide you, our readers, with some help in picking your next book to read. This is a mission we’ve always taken very seriously, trying to deliver informative...
View ArticleWords of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2) by Brandon Sanderson
Possibly the most-hyped release of 2014, and certainly The Ranting Dragon’s most anticipated novel for the year, is Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance. And it sure lives up to the hype! This huge...
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My Ten Favorite SFF Reads of 2017
At the end of 2016, I set myself a goal to revive The Ranting Dragon in the new year. As it turns out, 2017 was not the year of The Ranting Dragon, but rather the year of dramatic life changes. My wife...
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36 SFF Books I Plan to Read in 2018
Happy new year! I hope all of your dreams come true in 2018 and that all the books you choose to read turn out to be awesome. Back in the day, when The Ranting Dragon published articles on a daily...
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