R.F. Kuang

Prepare to be challenged, devastated, and electrified by the work of R.F. Kuang, the Chinese American author whose novels have established her as one of the most important and uncompromising voices in contemporary fantasy. Her debut The Poppy War trilogy draws on the history of twentieth-century China — including the Sino-Japanese War and the Nanjing Massacre — to create a brutal, unflinching dark fantasy of war, power, and survival. Her standalone novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence is a dazzling dark academia fantasy set in a silver-magic-powered Oxford, exploring colonialism, translation, and the violence at the heart of empire. Kuang writes with ferocious intelligence and refuses to look away.