For nearly two decades, 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.
Read on to discover a baker’s dozen of weird and wonderful new releases to start of the last month of 2015.
Alternate history can be a thrilling, but daunting, subgenre of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to dive into; there are seemingly endless possible “what-if,” timeline, and story combinations for readers to try. This month, Mind Meld asks writers: What is your favorite alt-history novel? What about the author’s treatment to the particular time period and story […]
Everything is bigger in The Rising, Ian Tregillis’ followup to The Mechanical and the second installment of his gearpunk alternate history trilogy The Alchemy Wars. In the mid-1600s, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huyens didn’t just invent the pendulum clock and do pioneering work on optics and mechanics—he discovered the secrets of the alchemical forge, imbuing life into mechanical men and […]