For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. At the end of each month, he’ll be sharing the lists of B&N’s bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the […]
Another year has come and gone, and another wondrous, terrifying peek into the nightmarish little desert town of Night Vale.
It’s September. Labor Day is over. Time to hit the books, preferably the ones you’ll find in the sci-fi & fantasy section. Here is a whole stack of them, newly arrived this week.
Befitting its status as an anonymous city in the American Southwest, Night Vale can be hard to pin down. Sure, there are the Patsy Cline seances at the local record store and the romantic evenings in the Arby’s parking lot that you would expect of any small desert town. But what of Night Vale’s more unique eccentricities, like […]