This July sees the release of Killing Pretty, the seventh installment in Richard Kadrey’s fiendishly inventive noir-tinged urban fantasy series Sandman Slim. This fact either fills you with delicious anticipation—another anti-heroic adventure of our favorite back-from-the-dead magician hellbent on revenge!—or it should, because you’re about to pick up the first book, because you read that whole “anti-heroic back-from-the-dead-magician-revenge” part.
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.
A war ends, an interstellar conflict looms, and knights ride dinosaurs—must be this week’s new releases in SF/F.
When it comes to the fantasy genre, the epic reads tend to get the most attention, with their clinking swords, garrulous monarchs, and unruly dragons. But some of the most compelling series are coming from the world of urban fantasy these days, with tough-talking, complex heroes and heroines, mix-and-match genre elements, and worlds at once both recognizable and innovative. Here […]
