For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on Tor.com and the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SFF releases.
Next week sees the release of Martians Abroad, Carrie Vaughn’s (the Kitty Norville series, After the Golden Age) gender-flipped homage to the so-called “Heinlein juviniles” sci-fi’s golden age. Today, she joins us to talk about how she was inspired to write the book, and what to do when you have too many ideas.
Give Carrie Vaughn’s Martians Abroad a few pages, and you’ll fall in love its protagonist, Polly Newton, the newest student at Earth’s prestigious Galileo Academy. She dreams of piloting spaceships, she’s fiercely smart, and she can crash a motorcycle with the best of them. By her side, you’ll experience the frustration of being shipped off to another planet to enroll in a […]