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Inspired by Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot Series

Listen to Ben Bemus as he recommends A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.

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What have we been reading lately? We have a teen struggling to understand her identity as she falls in love, a tea monk and a wild…

In my previous post (and in many future posts), I focused on speculative fiction that was either standalone or the first of a new series. Well, here you will find some of 2022s sequels in fantasy, sci-fi, and horror! Many of these Ive read the previous entries in the series, so I may actually be…

According to Goodreads, the best science fiction books of 2021 were "Project Hail Mary," "Klara and the Sun," and "Fugitive Telemetry."

Here is New Scientist's pick of the science and scfi-fi books from 2021 that will keep you entertained over the holiday season

Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series, which is concluding with The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, is a nice warm cup of tea when the weather outside is terrible. Sure there are conflicts and sadness but all of that unpleasantness is always outweighed by decency and honesty. It would be tempting to also claim that Chambers’s books are always interwoven with a fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity, which is true but only in the abstract. All of her characters in The Galaxy, and the Gr...

By Liza Monroy | Fantastical novellas and collections of short fiction can offer readers a brief respite from reality. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Tor.com, July), the slender first volume in Hugo Award–winner Becky Chambers’s Monk & Robot series, is dedicated to “anybody who could use a break.” Set in a future in which, freed from work obligations, intelligent robots disappeared from cities into the wilderness, the story follows Sibling Dex, a tea monk (job description: “ ...

Today, a quartet of publicists and marketers from the Tor family of imprints (Tor Books, Tordotcom Publishing, Tor Teen, Nightfire, and Forge) took to Crowdcast to give readers a preview of what’s coming to bookshelves next year. From a new Murderbot tale to Nghi Vo’s take on an American classic to not just one but two books from Charlie Jane Anders, there’s a lot to look forward to reading in 2021. You can watch the panel here, or read the highlights below! Publicist Lauren Anesta, marke...