In the city of Guerdon, the church bells ring with the cries of long-conquered gods, saints and alchemists wage war in the streets, and armageddon is all but at hand. A trio of misfit thieves is all that stands against a complex network of competing gods and mages—and the destruction they will wreak. To commemorate […]
Holy shirt, do we miss The Good Place. As we wait for the third season of this sitcom of screwball antics in the afterlife, we’re itching to find sci-fi and fantasy readalikes offering the same blend of goofy and earnestness that makes Michael’s neighborhood the only spot to spend eternity. While nothing can fill the […]
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.
We’re all imperfect mortals, but if fantasy has taught us anything, it’s that the gods are no great shakes either. The genre is loaded with tales of gods who are anything but infallable—whether than means losing all their followers or managing to embroil themselves in a millennia-long war with other immortals. These eight books deal with deities […]
