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.
2015 has been a great year for comics and graphic novels, and the quality cuts across every genre: science fiction, fantasy, horror, memoir. Even the big two have done groundbreaking things to mix up the tried-and-true superhero formula. More than ever, the range of material available proves the graphic medium has something for everyone, with a number of […]
It’s now September, and, with a second season officially in the works, impossible to deny Netflix’s Stranger Things the title of summer’s buzz-worthiest show. In eight episodes, the Duffer Brothers manage to synthesize everything great about ’80s pop entertainment—Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Marvel, D&D, and synthesizers—without once resorting to empty pastiche. It’s nostalgia with a soul, rare enough […]
A little something for everyone this week, even if, surprisingly, none of it is overtly dinosaur-themed. I mean, what with the Jurassic-fever that seems to be sweeping the nation. Still, we’ve got some solid superhero books, a bloody retro satire, and a generations-spanning murder mystery. There’s also some monster action in Scott Snyder’s collected The Wake—violent, flesh-eating […]