“For us, horror stories are a long, dark, scary tunnel. You hear sounds you don’t want to hear; you see things that are going to stick in your head. But if you keep putting one foot after the other, that speck of light at the end is going to grow a little bit bigger and […]
Today we announced Ada Hoffman’s forthcoming sci-fi novel The Outside, arriving in 2019 from Angry Robot Books. Because the book’s lead character has autism (Ada herself has Asperger Syndrome), the author joins us below to share five more books with awesome autistic protagonists. Autism has become trendy on TV and in books, with autistic characters […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…to scare yourself silly: Halloween, of course. Your autumn bucket list may include pumpkin spice everything—is there a pumpkin spice toothpaste yet? I bet someone is working on it now—crunching dead leaves under your new boots, and, hopefully, spending a dark and stormy night reading something in the […]
Italo Calvino once said, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” There are constantly lists put forth regarding “must read classics” and invariably comments follow with titles left off. Today, we polled a few experts in sci-fi and fantasy about their own personal list of classics. Q: […]
Welcome to our monthly roundup chronicling the best books the B&N SF/F stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.