Math: it either excites your mind or fills you with a boredom-tinged dread. For many, math is something to be survived through years of schooling, them promptly forgotten. For others, math is the secret programming language of the universe, a gateway to dimensions many will never perceive. It’s little wonder that a lot of science […]
You don’t have to be a math whiz to fall for the beautiful, flowing prose in Liz Ziemska’s novella Mandelbrot the Magnificent, a poignant secret history of World War II that neither pulls punches nor puts revels in trauma in telling the story of an unusually talented young Jewish boy who can manipulate numbers like magic.
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 best science fiction & fantasy books.