Space opera is experiencing a Renaissance, and Jay Allan’s Far Stars trilogy may be the subgenre’s next masterpiece. Between November and January, Harper Voyager will release all three installments of an ambitious new epic from the bestselling author of the Crimson World novels, one that features space pirates, kidnappings, threats of war, and interplanetary intrigue.
Science fiction has a proud tradition of space pirates, going back at least as far as Buck Rogers and his reformed-villain sidekick Black Barney. The genre often projects the principles of seafaring adventure into the far future, and with good reason: nautical parallels make sense and make for good stories. That said, the pirate-in-space trope can be […]
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.
Read on to discover a baker’s dozen of weird and wonderful new releases to start of the last month of 2015.