No matter how intricate the descriptions in many fantasy novels, they often overlook the less-sexy aspects of world-building. Few authors, for example, explore how a large fantasy city processes its sewage. And most fantasy stories craft a universe where a pitched swordfight in the middle of the day has no consequences—because most writers don’t think […]
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.
We don’t know about you, but there are still dozens of 2016 books on our teetering mountain of books we really, really want to read, provided we manage to live long enough. Which is why we approach the massive post below with equal parts excitement and trepidation. We asked sci-fi and fantasy editors from all the […]