Read an excerpt from Naomi Novik’s next novel, Spinning Silver
Over the last decade, fantasy author Naomi Novik has earned a reputation for her alternate Napoleonic era-set Temeraire series, in which soldiers fly atop dragons into battle. But in 2015, she shifted gears and wrote Uprooted, a novel inspired by classic fairy tales. The effort earned her the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2016. Her next novel, Spinning Silver, takes her back to those fairy tale roots.
The book will hit stores in July 2018, and we have an excerpt and the cover for you to look at. Novik told The Verge in an e-mail that her new novel grew out of a recent anthology called Starlit Woods: New Fairy Tales. She chose Rumplestiltskin as the inspiration for her story, and “as I started...