We’ve already shared the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog’s picks for the best new science fiction and fantasy books of 2018 (not to mention the best SFF as chosen by B&N’s team of experienced booksellers). But we’re not done yet: We also asked our crack time of bloggers, reviewers, and essayists—the folks behind […]
This month, we read stories of transdimensional spaceships, men in wolf’s clothing, scheming bots, brain implants and memory transfers, time travel, transformation, siblings and families, and unravelling secrets. “Beyond Comprehension“, by Russell Nichols in Fireside Fiction Brian has just paid more money than he could really afford to make his son André a “BookWorm Baby,” […]
As the real world grows each day stranger by leaps and bounds, the skewed secondary worlds, fantastical lands, and alternate histories that are the realms of science fiction and fantasy have only grown more vital, not only as a means of escape from blaring headlines, political turmoil, and the crescendo of climate change, but as […]
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 new sci-fi or fantasy book are you most looking forward to in […]
Last year, Nicky Drayden’s debut novel The Prey of Gods blew the doors of science fiction and fantasy off their hinges, blending a diverse array of elements into a madcap Afrofuturist romp. If you expected she’d pump the brakes on her sophomore effort, or maybe just that she’d run out of ideas, well, friend, you were mistaken. […]