Last year, we somehow waited all the way until November to share our list of the year’s top new science fiction and fantasy books, but 2016 has made than damn near impossible. Six months in, and we’re ready to call it: we’re in the middle of some kind of genre Renaissance, with provocative, innovative, compelling, and […]
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.
March 8 is some kind of holiday for urban fantasy fans, with new books from Patricia Briggs and Anne Bishop dropping on the same day. Plus, more epic fantasy and star-spanning space opera, plus a long-awaited short story collection from a master of the form.
Welcome to our monthly roundup chronicling the best books the B&N SF/F stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.
You don’t have to travel far through online fandom to find readers poking fun at popular epic fantasy series that often require readers to wait patiently (or not) for half-a-decade or more for the next instalment. It’s no surprise, really: the genre is complex by definition, and each volume often stacks up to four or fives times the […]
