"Thoughtful and quite moving.”
Rich Horton, Locus Magazine
"The last and best story in the issue, in my view, is the piece by Sarah Pinsker. Entitled "Our Lady of the Open Road", it's nothing more than an account of a few days in the life of a travelling rock band, in an era when actual live music has beem more or less squeezed to the margins by ubiquitous hologram playback technology. . . . It's full of nicely authentic details, too, such as the correct protocols for taking towels from hotel rooms.”
Alastair Reynolds
"So, it hit the right buttons for me; while I wouldn’t say that it was a perfect novelette, I think it’s handling a topic that will speak to some people intimately and in a very particular way.”
Brit Mandelo, tor.com
"Beautiful, bittersweet tale. Just perfect."
SF Revu
"A bittersweet tale containing elements of the fantastic, but at the same time, very much rooted in real and relatable loss and pain. There is a beautiful subtlety to this story. It never hits the reader over the head with the speculative element, leaving much of that side of the story between the lines. Pinsker handles the subtext so deftly that two full stories present themselves to the reader, even though only one is fully outlined on the page.”
A. C. Wise, SF Signal
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. What new sci-fi and fantasy books are on your must list in March?