There are scores of complex ideas in this impressive first novel…
The Washington Post
Welcome to our monthly roundup chronicling the best books the B&N SF/F stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.
Today, we finally get to see Jupiter Ascending, the latest (and hopefully not last) gloriously shiny sci-fi epic from The Wachowskis, the sibling directing duo behind The Matrix and the under-appreciated adaptation Cloud Atlas. Not since The Chronicles of Riddick has an outer space epic looked this unapologetically bombastic, and we couldn’t be more thrilled—if there’s one genre that […]
I have a new season’s resolution, and I hope you’ll consider it too: let’s make SF/F short stories our new summer reads. They’re perfect for the steamy months: Because they can be read in chunks without disrupting the narrative flow, they’re good for travel. They’re often more experimental than the average read, as authors use the form […]
When Mad Max: Fury Road opened, pretty much everyone agreed it was one of the best films of the year, and a new classic of the post-apocalyptic genre. Everyone, that is, save for a subset of dudes from one of the internet’s darkest corners, who lash out at anything that suggests that women can be just as […]
This week’s new books feature a long-awaited book by one of the biggest names in sci-fi, the return of a horror master, and an exciting new fantasy that is already being hailed as an instant classic.