Today we are joined by guest author Anna Kashina—whose latest book, Shadowblade, is out now from Angry Robot—as she discusses the skillful presentation...

The argument against Valentine’s Day is that it is an invented holiday designed to sell greeting cards, chocolate, and flowers. But who’s to...

The Cold War was bad enough when the phrase was only a metaphor. In The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, a bind-up of Serial Box Publishing’s fantasy...

Phantom Pains, by Mishell Baker  In her followup to the Nebula Award-nominated Borderline, Baker brings us up to date on what happened to Millie—a...

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...

We at the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog have been onboard the Serial Box train from the beginning. Who can resist this innovative publishing...

I can admit it: I first read The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke almost solely because of the cover. Sure, the plot description made...

After Atlas, by Emma Newman Newman returns to the intriguing world of Planetfall with a second novel (but not a sequel) that is just as thoughtful,...

Six episodes into HBO’s buzzy new science fiction series Westworld, viewers have spun roughly one jillion fan theories about how everything fits...