Today is Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, it’s a day of excess before the Catholic time of Lent begins—as good an excuse as any to throw an incredible party. Everyone knows there’s no place on Earth more epic to celebrate Mardi Gras than in New Orleans. Amazing food. Giant parades. […]
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.
You can get anything you want in Canto Bight—absolutely anything. But, of course, there’s a price. There’s always a price. The casino planet is a major setting in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but gets a thorough introduction in a new anthology from Saladin Ahmed, Mira Grant, Rae Carson, and John Jackson Miller.
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