Sometimes a book comes along that make you SO EXCITED, you want to give a copy of it to everyone you know, so you can immediately start talking/crying/laughing about it together. Maybe it’s because you see yourself in the book, or wish you did, or because it says something so true and honest about the human experience […]

For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]

For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]

It’s typical of human priorities that we invented firearms and Greek fire centuries before we figured out how to fly. Luckily, we can rely on the imaginations of science fiction and fantasy writers, who routinely take something already quite awesome (the power of flight) and make it even more awesome by eschewing the sleek lines of a […]

The graphic novel medium lends itself incredibly well to weirdness. Comics are frequently, wonderfully strange, in the very best sense of the word. From the very beginning, something about the format has welcomed unique sensibilities to tell stories that can’t (or won’t) be told elsewhere. Even the most mainstream material, from Superman to the Teenage […]