Biology, especially on a smaller scale, is sometimes completely indistinguishable from horror. The real world has given us ravenous insects with absolutely terrifying eating and breeding habits and plants that trap prey for days while digesting it alive, amid numerous other unsettling marvels. But among the most unnerving natural phenomena are fungi. There are mushrooms […]
Short stories hold a special place in the modern history of science fiction and fantasy—from the Golden Age, when sci-fi and fantasy magazines gave birth to legendary careers, to today, when they’ve proliferated across digital media, introducing us to up-and-coming talent and revealing new facets of established writers we love. Here are our favorite science […]
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.
The first week of October kicks off the last quarter of 2016 at a frantic pace. Here are 17 new titles to cram onto your shelves, including the first novel in six years from perennial Hugo winner Connie Willis, already enough to ensure it’s one of the best weeks of the year for SFF readers.
Around here, we’re big fans of Uncanny Magazine, an excellent source from some of today’s best SFF short fiction. In support of the publication’s Year Three Kickstarter, we’re handing over the virtual floor to publishers Lynne M. and Michael Damian Thomas, who share their personal picks for the uncanniest stories they’ve ever published. We’re Lynne […]