The bitter, of course, is that Le Guin died in January 2018, albeit at the respectable age of 88. The sweetness, oh readers, is the recent wave of beautifully repackaged, definitive collections of her iconic works (which is most of them), starting with Saga Press’s publication of The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and […]
I’ve long referred to Ursula K. Le Guin my literary grandmother, a polestar of my understanding of fiction, fantasy, and the world itself. When I learned yesterday that she had died, even if at the respectable age of 88, I sat down and cried. I cried long, wracking tears, the kind that make me feel […]
I have an ever-growing collection of horrific paperback editions of Ursula K. Le Guin’s work. She’s my favorite writer, so that explains some of the impulse; I dig the artifacts of decades of publication history. Garish art, yellowing pages, failing spines threatening to turn the book into an unfixable mess of out-of-order pages: these are […]
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 can’t-miss new SFF releases.
It’s September. Labor Day is over. Time to hit the books, preferably the ones you’ll find in the sci-fi & fantasy section. Here is a whole stack of them, newly arrived this week.