For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.
Lila Bowen’s new novel Wake of Vultures may be the weirdest thing I’ve read this year, a dizzying blend of western mythology, Deadwood grit, and twisted B-movie violence starring one of the most original heroes ever encountered. It’s also the best examination of the “chosen one” stereotype in recent fiction, examining what it it means to have a destiny […]
The freedom granted to authors of science fiction and fantasy is kind of awesome: when a world is limited only by the writer’s imagination, exploring complex themes and pushing back against the expected becomes a matter of choice, much more so than in other types of fiction. And in genres that often explore other cultures and alien worlds, what […]
October’s end brings another worthy pile of new reads, including the long-awaited reissue of a Hugo-winning classic from Joan D. Vinge.
My first book was based on a sex dream after binge watching too much Buffy. I have a book inspired by a photoset of an amusement park I found on tumblr and another one that started with, “I just really want to see Princess Anastasia murder everybody.” One book was even triggered by a South […]