https://simons-visual-library.pages.dev/ Simon’s visual essays about the fictional stories he is taking with him. en-CA https://heir-of-fire-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://heir-of-fire-visual-essay.pages.dev/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:11:34 GMT Exiled to Wendlyn, Celaena Sardothien must confront the grief she has spent years outrunning, master the magic she was forced to bury, and reclaim her identity as Aelin Galathynius, the lost Queen of Terrasen, before the King of Adarlan’s growing darkness consumes the people and world she still loves. https://morning-star-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://morning-star-visual-essay.pages.dev/ 2026-10-18 After the Jackal breaks him, Darrow must still lead a fractured rebellion against the Society and discover whether the Reaper can build a future as the old order comes apart. https://the-well-of-ascension-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://the-well-of-ascension-visual-essay.pages.dev/ 2026-10-08 With the Lord Ruler dead, Luthadel is free for the first time in a thousand years. Vin and Elend have won a revolution, but building a better world in its wake may prove harder than winning it. https://crown-of-midnight-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://crown-of-midnight-visual-essay.pages.dev/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:55:04 GMT The prized role of King’s Champion is an elaborate ruse: for months, Celaena Sardothien has staged her targets’ deaths, sparing them while deceiving the crown that believes it owns her. When one mission puts a figure from her past in her sights, the performance begins to crack. Rebellion, forbidden magic, and a murdered friend’s final challenge drive her toward the buried name she has spent a decade trying to outrun. https://a-game-of-thrones-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://a-game-of-thrones-visual-essay.pages.dev/ 2026-09-29 When the Hand of the King dies suddenly, the honourable Lord Eddard Stark is drawn from Winterfell into the treacherous heart of the Westerosi court, where rumours, bloodlines, ravens, and the hunger for power begin to close around him. As old darkness stirs beyond the Wall and the last heirs of a fallen dynasty gather strength across the narrow sea, the struggle for the Iron Throne turns into a contest over whose claim is legitimate and who survives. https://mistborn-the-final-empire-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://mistborn-the-final-empire-visual-essay.pages.dev/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:31:39 GMT In a world of ash ruled by an immortal god-emperor, a street thief who has survived by trusting no one discovers that she can burn metals to wield a rare and dangerous magic. A rebellion offers her a chance at freedom, but taking it means risking the walls that kept her alive. https://the-iliad-and-the-odyssey-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://the-iliad-and-the-odyssey-visual-essay.pages.dev/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:13:39 GMT Across two epics, Homer turns war and homecoming into companion studies of grief, identity, and the work of making a place worth returning to. https://red-rising-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://red-rising-visual-essay.pages.dev/ 2026-09-12 In a colour-coded civilization built on a lie, a young Helldiver from the lowest caste is remade as a Gold and sent to the Institute, an elite war school for the Society’s future rulers. To tear that world apart from within, he must wear the enemy’s face long enough to risk forgetting his own. https://golden-son-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://golden-son-visual-essay.pages.dev/ 2026-09-12 Having remade himself into the perfect Gold, Darrow is pulled deeper into the empire’s political bloodsport and forced to decide how far the performance can go before the revolutionary becomes indistinguishable from the system he means to destroy. https://project-hail-mary-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://project-hail-mary-visual-essay.pages.dev/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:26:58 GMT After an organism begins feeding on the sun, Ryland Grace, a former scientist turned schoolteacher, wakes alone on a starship with no memory of how he got there. He must piece together the mission and find a way to save Earth. Then he meets Rocky, an alien survivor trying to save his own world, and the two must learn to work together to save both their worlds. https://throne-of-glass-visual-essay.pages.dev/ https://throne-of-glass-visual-essay.pages.dev/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:05:00 GMT After a year in Endovier’s salt mines, Adarlan’s most notorious assassin is offered a poisoned bargain: win a deadly royal competition, serve four years as the king’s Champion, and buy her freedom from the empire that broke her. In a glittering court where old magic is stirring, Celaena must decide whether the freedom she is promised will cost her the self she is trying to reclaim.