10/08/2018
Sullivan (Dreaming in Smoke) takes readers on a psychedelic journey through an unknown higher dimension. Pearl’s first memory of Earth is waking up in a junkyard in present-day New York, somehow aware that she’s from a higher dimension, she’s not human, and she looks like what humans call an angel. She also knows she must find a man who stole something important from her that he keeps in a briefcase. When it’s opened, other dimensions are accessed, and other creatures can escape. Until she can find him, she works for a mysterious organization called the Resistance, posing as a flight attendant and using her powers to create small acts of kindness by calming human minds. When she encounters the man and briefcase on a flight, their interaction results in a hole being ripped in the plane. The Resistance fires her, and she’s left to find the briefcase again on her own. Readers looking for a straightforward story will not find it here; however, those looking to stretch their imaginations will appreciate Sullivan’s eclectic and unorthodox tale. (Sept.)
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’s your top new SFF book in September?
How the Resistance both knows what will happen, and what the effects of their intervention will be, is not precisely clear, but then, Pearl is used to mystery. She herself was hijacked, then abandoned, in a junkyard on Long Island two years previous. She doesn’t remember anything before the incident. Despite the grey threading through […]
We’ve already told you our picks for the year’s best science fiction and fantasy books. Then we figured, why not see what books their authors are reading. After all, who would know better what works in the genre are worthy of celebrating than those who know exactly how much work goes in to creating one […]