For two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s best science fiction & fantasy books. What sci-fi or fantasy books are on your “must-buy” list for October?
Terry Brooks has an epically long history in epic fantasy. Alongside works from Katherine Kurtz and Stephen R. Donaldson, his 1977 debut The Sword of Shannara helped to bring droves of readers into the fantasy fold in the 1970s and ’80s, filling the void left when Tolkien completed The Lord of the Rings. It’s not unfair to […]