As modern science runs amok, achieving things once unimaginable and unlocking the secrets of the universe, writing science fiction gets increasingly difficult. Things once considered the ravings of wild-eyed novelists with rich imaginations are being mass-produced and sold (the iPhone is basically the Hitchhiker’s Guide, people), and the list of truly amazing things you can toss […]
Peter Clines is no stranger to blending genres and blowing minds, and he’s at it again with The Fold. In the author’s afterword, Clines mentions that the idea for this novel has been with him since his school days, when a creative writing teacher’s disdain for it made him put it aside. It’s easy to see […]
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction 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 month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.
We’re highlighting 13 new releases this week, which means you have no excuse for playing Candy Crush on your phone on the train tonight.
It’s fun to imagine the Darkest Timeline version of yourself—with an evil goatee, perhaps, and a snazzy black suit, plotting to take over a world somehow intriguingly different from our own. It’s an easy explanation for the persistent popularity of the “alternate universe” concept in science fiction of all kinds. The trope allows creators to explore ideas that […]