…the fourth and final part of [Wells's] brilliant Murderbot Diaries…Murderbot's voice [is] a beautiful blend of exhausted cynicism and deep, helpless love… Murderbot has no illusions about the way the world works and will say so blisteringly, but remains so passionately committed to the people it loves and doing what's right that I kept welling up in response. Its angry, poignant point of view, wrapped up in sharp, short bites of space adventure, is utterly addictive…
For 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. What sci-fi or fantasy books are on your “must-buy” list for October?
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We can quibble about why it took so long for her to make it to the winner’s podium (though she was a Best Novel Nebula nominee in 1998 for her evocative gaslamp fantasy The Death of the Necromancer), but it’s not so surprising that Murderbot was a hit with readers—not since Marvin the Paranoid Android have […]
For 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. See the best books from previous months here.