Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks
Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks

For over a decade, Jim Killen has been the driving force behind Barnes & Noble’s remarkably well-chosen science fiction and fantasy sections. Now Tor.com is partnering with Jim for a series of appreciations, the “Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks.” Each month, Jim will curate a list of science fiction & fantasy titles, which various Tor.com contributors will then explore.

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2012
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January 2012 - Military Science Fiction
Game Over, Man! Tor.com Appreciates Military Science Fiction January 17 2012
Future Shock: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman January 17 2012
Meet John Perry: John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War January 18 2012
Horses, Aunts, and Space Battles: Elizabeth Moon’s Heris Serrano: Omnibus One January 19 2012
The Rest is History: David Weber and John Ringo’s March Upcountry January 20 2012
Overkill (Excerpt) January 21 2012
Ragnarok (Excerpt) January 22 2012
Unity Against The Storm: A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo January 23 2012
For Whom the Space Beacon Tolls: Another Look at Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers January 23 2012
Of treecats and spaceships: David Weber’s On Basilisk Station January 24 2012
Naval débutantes in space: Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife: Mutineer January 25 2012
Portals, Portals Everywhere: Into the Looking Glass by John Ringo January 26 2012
A Warrior’s Complexity: Orphanage by Robert Buettner January 27 2012
Legion of the Damned (Excerpt) January 28 2012
David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers Stories January 29 2012
The Wary Returning Hero: Jack Campbell’s Dauntless January 30 2012
September 2011 - Firsts in Epic Fantasy
Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold September 6 2011
Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself September 7 2011
Ultimate evil and banking in Daniel Abraham’s The Dragon’s Path September 8 2011
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky September 9 2011
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (and Why You Should Read It) September 12 2011
The Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood September 13 2011
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin September 14 2011
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson September 15 2011
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson September 16 2011
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss September 19 2011
October 2011 - Steampunk
Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Picks for October: Steampunk Edition October 3 2011
Mike Resnick’s The Buntline Special: A Weird West Tale October 3 2011
This is American Steampunk (And How!): Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century Series October 4 2011
Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age - Steampunk’s 22nd-Century Sourcebook October 5 2011
Kady Cross’s The Girl in the Steel Corset - Gadgets, Gears and Grease October 6 2011
Clay & Susan Griffith’s The Greyfriar October 7 2011
Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan Trilogy: Around the World in the Belly of a Whale October 10 2011
Steampunk by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer October 11 2011
Steampunk! - An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories October 12 2011
November 2011
Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Picks for November November 1 2011
Sequels and Subversive Sexuality: Malinda Lo Interviews Jacqueline Carey about Saints Astray November 1 2011
The Doomsday Vault (Excerpt) November 2 2011
A Talent for Future Archaeology: Firebird and Echo by Jack McDevitt November 3 2011
The Heart of “Eyes to See” by Joseph Nassise November 4 2011
The Profound Rantings of a Sane Madman: An Appreciation of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick November 7 2011
Only One of Us is Getting Out of this Genre Alive: Brandon Sanderson’s The Alloy of Law November 8 2011
All Things Rachel: The Hollows Insider by Kim Harrison November 9 2011
The Warrior Princess: Mike Shepherd’s Kris Longknife: Daring November 10 2011
Magic on the Line (Excerpt) November 11 2011
The Year’s Most Fantastic SFF Art: Spectrum 18 November 14 2011
I Balance the Force with a Little Help From My Friends — Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan by Drew Karpyshyn November 15 2011
Vampire Dystopia: Guillermo del Toro’s The Night Eternal November 16 2011
Gallows Humor and Occasional Profanities: An Appreciation of Terry Pratchett November 17 2011
December 2011
Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Picks for December December 5 2011
A Look Back at A Dance With Dragons December 5 2011
A Compliment to Fantasy: Archon: The Book of Raziel December 6 2011
Not Your Father’s Computer Simulation: Rod Rees’ The Demi-Monde: Winter December 7 2011
Catching Up To the Future: An Appreciation of William Gibson December 8 2011
Arkham State of Mind: New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird December 9 2011
Wizards Never Get a Day Off: Side Jobs by Jim Butcher December 12 2011
Dash Rendar and Han Solo Walk into a Bar — Star Wars: Shadow Games December 13 2011
Inventing Palpatine — Star Wars: Darth Plagueis December 14 2011
Michael Scott and Colette Freedman Explain the Mythology of The Thirteen Hallows December 15 2011
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