“And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.” —”A Scandal in Bohemia,” Arthur Conan Doyle After all, Cogman’s time-and-dimension-hopping librarian lives in a “vaguely Victorian England with a tendency towards steam power, zeppelins, libertines, and Great Detectives.” A murder has occurred […]
Librarians make great heroes, from Barbara “Batgirl” Gordon, to the rebel librarians in Rachel Caine’s Great Library novels, to the Librarians television show—and none may stand equal to the intrepid employees of the Invisible Library in Genevieve Cogman’s delightful same-named fantasy series.
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.