It’s amazing how progress sneaks up on you. Not so long ago, stories about manned missions to Mars were purely speculative. Today, in the wake of Andy Weir’s The Martian and the ongoing work of SpaceX and other “space tourism” efforts, stories about people living on Mars seem much closer to reality. Frank Kittridge, former […]
What are you reading this week?
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 books are you most looking forward to in April?
To quote Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Considering we already routinely get lost just driving to a new city—even with the benefit of a tiny AI giving us directions—there’s no questioning that once humans have reached the point that we’re actually traveling […]