Héctor Tobar, author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Barbarian Nurseries — a Holiday 2011 Discover Great New Writers selection now out in paperback — recommends 3 great reads
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees. For the Nebula, that is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are six […]
One of our favorite new fantasy series of 2018 (and many years before that, to be honest), is Josiah Bancroft’s The Books of Babel, a deeply original adventure-cum-exploration of the titular fictional edifice. And one of the defining features of the series shows up on the first page of Senlin Ascends, before the story proper […]
Without a doubt, 2018 is the year of Josiah Bancroft’s twisting, spiraling, ever-climbing Books of Babel series. Originally a self-published work, Senlin Ascends dropped anew in January with Orbit Books—and a whole lot of mainstream publishing buzz—behind it. The second book, Arm of the Sphinx, arrived this week, continuing the many misadventures of Thomas Senlin, […]
Writing about books tends to superlatives. You’ve read them countless times; the books we love are “breathtaking,” “brilliant,” a “tour de force.” So when I encounter something truly astonishing, I feel like those worn out exclamations can’t do the work justice. Death’s End, the final volume in Cixin Liu’s Hugo Award-winning trilogy, is that kind of astonishing. […]