The galactic empire is at peace following the revolt that was the subject of the first Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy. Peace—and already settling back into familiar patterns. With the conclusion of hostilities, there’s nothing the empire’s elites crave more than a return to the old ways of doing things, never mind that the old ways […]
Some novels become living entities, spawning spinoffs in countless allied narrative forms. The Harry Potter series begat movies, a plays, and the Pottermore website; A Song of Ice and Fire currently spans five novels, a host of novellas and short stories, an in-world volume of lore, a blockbuster TV adaptation, video games, and countless other mediums. With that in mind, […]
The first week of October kicks off the last quarter of 2016 at a frantic pace. Here are 17 new titles to cram onto your shelves, including the first novel in six years from perennial Hugo winner Connie Willis, already enough to ensure it’s one of the best weeks of the year for SFF readers.
Welcome to our monthly roundup chronicling the books the B&N SFF stable of bloggers loved in the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the best sci-fi & fantasy books we’ve read in the past 30 days.
Walter Jon Williams’ sci-fi novels defy simple categorization; you never quite know what you’re going to get from one of his books, but it’s probably going to knock your socks off. He’s written cyberpunk (Hardwired), mannerpunk (The Crown Jewels), arcanepunk (Metropolitan), space opera (Implied Spaces), cyberpunk space opera (Angel Station), techno-thrillers (This Is Not a Game)…we […]
