It’s a wonderful time to be a science fiction fan. The television adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse space opera series is poised to drag SyFy back from the brink. Ann Leckie’s excellent Ancillary Justice has been optioned, as has basically everything with John Scalzi’s name on the cover, from Lock In, to Redshirts , to The Ghost Brigades. But there’s one series […]
Few science-fictional settings are as intriguing as the one created across the nine novels (and one novella) that comprise Iain M. Banks’s Culture series. It’s a benign take on the concept of a galactic empire (at least on the surface), a post-scarcity future in which humanity’s every desire, from bizarre entertainments, to body modifications, to […]
Brent Weeks. Ann Leckie. N.K. Jemisin. James S.A. Corey. What do all these big names in sci-fi and fantasy have in common? Their debut novels were published by Orbit Books. Over the last decade, Orbit US, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, has quickly established itself as one of the premiere publishers of science fiction […]
The Scottish author Iain Banks famously led a double life in publishing. Some of his books—the ones published under the name Iain Banks—were sold to readers as “literature,” and shelved as such in bookstores. The rest—the ones that applied his talent for crafting boldly unlikeable characters and tossing them into enormously complex plots laden with the […]