Maybe we’re biased, but we happen to believe that receiving a B&N gift card is one of the best things about Christmas (or any holiday, for that matter). You get to experience not only the fun of opening your gift card and daydreaming about all the awesome books that might be in your future, but the […]

En Barnes & Noble te ofrecemos los Libros infantiles más exitosos del 2024. Si deseas pasar un rato amenos leyendo con los chiquitines del hogar, disfruta esta selección de bellos libros que niños y niñas gozarán por muchos años. Back To Top

Novelist, poet, inventor, activist: Margaret Atwood is already a (Canadian) national treasure, and she’s not letting up anytime soon. She has a new book out, and her MaddAddam series is being developed for HBO, but her latest venture takes her into an entirely new medium: she’s penned an original graphic novel series for Dark Horse Comics. Back To […]

Domed cities have been a thing in science fiction since the very beginning, a salient metaphor made almost inescapable by its obviousness: inside, outside; same, same, not the same. The domed city is such a striking image, an enclosure of humanity out there on the Martian plains, or on a ravaged, post-apocalyptic Earth, or glinting in space in […]

A lot of ink, digital and otherwise, is spilled each year as writers—pressured endlessly into coming up with think-pieces—point and laugh at the generations-old predictions science fiction made about the future. Flying cars! We were promised flying cars! Sure, the genre sometimes gets things wrong when it predicts the future, but a surprising number of once science fictional technologies are now […]

Science fiction has always been good at finding ways to get from one point in space to another. Some methods are a bit more implausible than others: traveling faster than the speed of light breaks the laws of physics as we know them, but if you don’t mind taking your time, a ship going a bit slower […]

One could argue that the global rise of science fiction across almost every entertainment medium has something to do with the way the world seems to be hurtling toward a science fiction future, from technological breakthroughs, to extended lifespans, to, less cheerily, horrific climate change. Between endless wildfires, deep droughts, and annual superstorms, it’s easy to start looking at apocalyptic as […]

“Mundane science fiction” is a literary movement that seeks to reign in the “fiction” part of SF and promote the “science” a bit more. Its supporters bring a practical angle to their approach to the genre: why assume mankind will somehow ascend to the stars, colonize planets, encounter aliens, and reach a singularity when we can’t even guarantee […]

For three decades now, Kim Stanley Robinson has been mapping the future of humanity through science fiction. His novels are as much densely-packed thought experiments—what would it really take to terraform a planet? What solutions will humanity have to find to deal with what we’re doing to the one we’re living on now?—as they are thrilling […]

It’s that time of year again: the time when ordinary Americans from across country and around the globe pause to commemorate that time nobody wanted to pay taxes and we fought tooth and nail for independence. Revolution and rebellion are powerful concepts in real life and in fiction. Science fiction and fantasy in particular offer us the […]

Bringing to life the stirring, revolutionary words that helped shape American democracy, Isaacson offers a vital reminder of the values we continue to aspire to as a nation. Read on for an exclusive essay from author Walter Isaacson on writing The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. Two years ago, I began to focus on the fact […]

Bringing to life the stirring, revolutionary words that helped shape American democracy, Isaacson offers a vital reminder of the values we continue to aspire to as a nation. Read on for an exclusive essay from author Walter Isaacson on writing The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. Two years ago, I began to focus on the fact […]

This gripping and darkly humorous debut novel examines the cutthroat housing market and just how far people will go in order to secure their dream home. Read on for an exclusive essay from author Marisa Kashino on writing Best Offer Wins. It was the twist that came to me first. Having recently signed up for […]