These days, it seems like you can’t turn around without stepping on a cape or two. Always the powerhouses of the comic book world, superheroes have now taken over movie theaters as well. But as much as we love our costumed crime fighters, we recognize the fact that not everyone is as excited as we […]
I love space opera novels, and if Hollywood puts dollars behind a splashy sci-fi blockbuster, I’ll be there opening weekend, but the best intergalactic saga running is, well, Saga, and it’s playing out month-by-month in splash pages and speech bubbles in Image Comics’ sensational continuing series.
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the sci-fi and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the can’t miss upcoming genre releases.
There is a common practice in romance novels that I think science fiction and fantasy authors would do well to steal. Subsequent books in a romance series are often told from the point of view of someone who was a side character in the previous novel. The first book sets up the group—say, men who […]
Space opera is a bit like pornography (bear with me here)…As the old legal formulation goes, you can’t exactly define it, but you know it when you see it. True, there’s perhaps no other genre that inspires quite as much passionate disagreement among fans about what exactly makes a space opera a space opera, but…but you know it […]