{"id":2739,"date":"2013-08-14T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/In-the-Margin\/BNR-Recommends-The-Best-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-of-2013-So\/ba-p\/11124"},"modified":"2013-08-14T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:46:13","slug":"bnr-recommends-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-2013-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/bnr-recommends-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-2013-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"BNR Recommends: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2013 (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fiction, that harbinger of things to come, is a genre alive and well, continuing to serve as an illumination of our greatest hopes and fears for what the future holds.&nbsp; Similarly, the epic tales of the Fantasy genre cast the human experience as one of dueling triumph and devastating defeat, war and serenity, royalty and paupers.&nbsp; These fantastic realms have produced some of 2013&#8217;s finest fiction, corralled and admired here at the Review.&nbsp; And so we have compiled a collection of forty-two works comprising the best SF and Fantasy of 2013 (Thus Far), which can be found by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/s?csrfToken=fzG33lxRZAVl2uGBe4YLNfKDr9qtURuZ&amp;sort=SA&amp;size=42&amp;promo_id=2068&amp;store=book&amp;view=grid\"><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a round-up of four particularly fascinating books from this list, each of which has captured our sense of the surreal, and quenched our thirst for heroes and villains of mythic proportions.&nbsp; &#8212; <em>The Editors<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fiction, that harbinger of things to come, is a genre alive and well, continuing to serve as an illumination of our greatest hopes and fears for what the future holds.&nbsp; Similarly, the epic tales of the Fantasy genre cast the human experien&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}