Earlier this year I wrote a post about how artificial intelligences might develop a personality. And once you are a person (biological, artificial, or some combination of the two), theoretically you are entitled to have your own life—and you can chose to keep at least part of that life private. Five recent books that explore […]
This month, Mind Meld takes a bit of a departure from the usual format to look ahead to the next year of new sci-fi and fantasy books. We asked the authors included in our list of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2017 to tell us what titles they have recently enjoyed or […]
2017: the year that became an adjective. A year during which the only status quo became the lack of one, and the only thing stranger than the day’s trending Twitter topics was the next day’s trending Twitter topics. Wherever you come down on the merits of the past 12 months, there’s no denying the fact […]
For nearly 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 can’t-miss new SFF releases.