The Malice is the sequel to Peter Newman’s The Vagrant, picking up the story about 12 years later. It’s about a girl named Vesper, who grew up in a very sheltered environment, with only her father, the Vagrant, Uncle Harm, and quite a few goats to keep her company. Despite being raised on scary stories from from her […]
And we thought choosing the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2015 was tough. Not only was 2016 an outstanding year for wholly new entertainments across all facets of the genre, it also featured high-profile sequels to many of last year’s very best reads. We could have easily packed the list with a dozen […]
The cover copy sells Peter Newman’s fantasy debut The Vagrant as Mad Max meets the Gunslinger. Indeed, the world that our nameless, titular hero travels through is filled with demonic hoards and the callous remnants of humanity, and the scarred landscape recalls both post-apocalyptic and survival narratives. It’s a hardscrabble place, full of uncertainty, and death, and a yawning […]
This week would be a major event for SF/F if the only book coming out was the long-awaited new fantasy from Guy Gavriel Kay. But there’s a lot more than that waiting for you on shelves today: a challenging far-future SF debut, a time-jumping revenge novella, a twist on the classic “fix-up” novel, and more.
Welcome to our monthly roundup chronicling the best books the B&N SFF stable of bloggers has read over the previous month. Old or new, it doesn’t matter—these are the ones that will stick with us.