In an interview last month with the B&N Podcast, Hugo-winning author John Scalzi posited that we are currently in a new Golden Age of science fiction and fantasy, and it’s hard to disagree with him. Never before within the genres have their been so many excellent books on offer to so many different types of […]
If 2017 disappointed us in a lot of ways, we can’t say it didn’t introduce to a whole stack of amazing debut novels, and we have no reason to expect that 2018 will be any different. While it’s easy enough to mark down, say, Iron Gold on your TBR list, it’s tougher to predict what debuts […]
For 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 best science fiction & fantasy books.
A group of colonists on an alien world struggles to maintain its principles and build a new society over the course of decades in Sue Burke’s sci-fi debut Semiosis. Around 2060, a group of humans leave a blighted Earth, imbued with an almost religious zeal to start over and do things right this time. They arrived […]