We seem to be living in a golden age of dystopian science fiction. Whatever the reality around us (and surely some of motivation for this grim prognosticating is our increasingly interconnected society, in which every misery is dramatized for quick consumption), there’s a real sense the wheels have come off the cart; it only makes […]
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 […]
Science fiction has always been about showing us the impossible, or depicting the possible in ways no one has imagined before. A debut sci-fi novel is, therefore, a pretty meta occurrence—something that didn’t exist yesterday, something you didn’t imagine ever existing, suddenly sitting in your hands. It’s like landing on a new planet: you don’t know if […]