Few books have fulfilled the promise of their title as quickly as Kill the Farm Boy, which sees its erstwhile corn-pone protagonist squashed to death on page 31. With the body of Worstley, a farm boy turned, supposedly, Chosen One, still warm at the foot of an enchanted tower, a zany assemblage of characters takes […]
Reverence is 99 percent understanding and one percent irreverence. I might have just made up that axiom, but I stand by the math nonetheless. Regardless, few things are more enjoyable than a sci-fi or fantasy spoof that so perfectly skewers the genre it mimics that it threatens to become a genre classic in its own […]
2017: the year that became an adjective. A year during which the only status quo became the lack of one, and the only thing stranger than the day’s trending Twitter topics was the next day’s trending Twitter topics. Wherever you come down on the merits of the past 12 months, there’s no denying the fact […]
At the end of each month, we share lists of B&N’s current bestsellers in the genre, from new hardbacks, to trade paperbacks, to mass markets and media tie-ins, to graphic novels and manga. These are the books everyone is talking about—and buying. Hardcovers
We made it through 2017, a tumultuous year for the world, but not a bad one at all in the sci-fi and fantasy section of the bookstore. If you need proof (well, more proof), we offer the new books the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog staff loved in 2017.