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.
Like the blackest of Black Mirror episodes, Karin Tidbeck’s debut novel Amatka pivots off of a high-concept big idea: the setting is a world where most objects are continually named and marked—for example, a suitcase must always have a clear label reading SUITCASE, and this must be reinforced regularly by touching it and saying “Suitcase” out loud […]