We’re not going to argue with anyone who says 2016 was a bad year (“bad” being one of the more polite adjectives to pick from), but if they try to extend that blanket statement to cover sci-fi and fantasy books, well, we offer this rebuke: the new books the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog staff loved […]
A big anniversary, two big books honoring a living legend, and a much-anticipated new collection top this week’s list of new releases in sci-fi and fantasy. So what else in new?
Cyberpunk has a reputation for neon-tinged humorlessness, but Exploded View, a New Wave Cyberpunk thriller from hardcore musician-cum-journalist-cum-author Sam McPheeters, is at once grim and gritty, and ruthlessly funny. It’s a dark procedural set in a near future in which an overtaxed bureaucracy, an overpopulated city teeming with a massive underclass of refugees, and a generally apathetic public have coalesced into a crime-ridden […]
This fall, Talos Press is putting a new name on the list of authors to watch: Sam McPheeters. His cyber-thriller Exploded View is out in October, and while it isn’t his debut, his first novel, 2012’s The Loom of Ruin, was published by a small press and is tough to get ahold of these day. His […]
Cyberpunk: the word evokes images of a neon-washed cityscape, corporations up to no good, cranial ports to access the ‘net, and protagonists who exist in shades of gray. Over the years, the genre has more or less fallen into a kind of rhythm, even as it updates its technology and morés with the times. But […]