The Future, Unevenly Distributed: William Gibson’s Neuromancer at 35
When Neuromancer was published in 1984, its author, a newbie writer named William Gibson with not many credits to his name…
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Your Soundtrack to Prince’s The Beautiful Ones
The night that Prince died, I went for a walk through my neighborhood in Minneapolis, the city of his birth.…
A New Book Imagines the Undead Plague of The Walking Dead Hitting China
In fiction, the apocalypse is typically a local affair, the global impact notwithstanding. In the early days, survivors might catch…
Deborah Hewitt’s The Nightjar: A Soaring Fantasy Debut
The opening of Deborah Hewitt’s accomplished debut, The Nightjar, is comfortably familiar, despite the extremely uncomfortable and unfamiliar things that…
A Young Trio of Warriors Is Changed by Their Quest in the Musically Minded Fantasy The Harp of Kings
Though it retains the cozily Celtic, epic flavor of her enduring Sevenwaters saga, Juliet Marillier’s new novel The Harp of Kings marks…
Teens in Space Rocket Toward an Uncertain Future in Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
In the mildly alternate present of Temi Oh’s debut novel Do You Dream of Terra-Two? the Earth is facing the same global…
In The Violent Century, Lavie Tidhar Turns Superheroes Inside-Out
Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay tells a fictionalized account of the partnership between Jerry Siegel…
A Curious Case of Canonical Fanfiction: Baoshu’s The Redemption of Time
The story of how Baoshu’s The Redemption of Time came to exist will ring true to anyone who has even fallen in…
Galactic Kitchen Confidential: The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz
Located on a space station that is more relay stop than destination, the titular restaurant in Ferret Steinmetz’s The Sol…
The Fate of the World Is at Stake in The Gameshouse
Though Claire North’s The Gameshouse collects three novellas previously only available as ebooks, it works quite beautifully as a novel in three…
A Wandering Metaphysical Mystery: Karen Lord’s Unraveling
Unraveling, the new novel from World Fantasy Award nominee Karen Lord, is on one level a mystery: a serial killer,…
The Fight Comes Home for Mercy Thompson in Storm Cursed
In an urban fantasy series as long-lived as Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson—which began with Moon Called in 2006, and recently reached…
6 Essential Works by 2019 SFWA Grand Master William Gibson
During next week’s Nebula Award weekend, venerable science fiction writer William Gibson will be honored as the 35th Damon Knight…
Blogging the Nebulas: Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver Transforms Folklore into Fantasy Gold
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula…
Sequel Storm of Locusts Is Even Better Than the Hugo-Nominated Trail of Lightning
In concrete action, Rebecca Roanhorse’s Storm of Locusts begins similarly to its Hugo- and Nebula-nominated predecessor Trail of Lighting: with a knock…
Reality Is an Impossible Game: Emma Newman’s Atlas Alone
Reviewing a novel four books deep into a series is always a little tricky, even if—as with Emma Newman’s Planetfall…
Blogging the Nebulas: Blackfish City Carries the Zeitgeist on the Back of a Whale
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula…
10 Science Fiction Books Featuring Interplanetary Religious Missions
The word “mission” has something of a triple meaning. A mission can be a group of people tasked with political,…
Blogging the Nebulas: Trail of Lightning Shocks Urban Fantasy Back to Life
Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SFF literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula…
A Second Life for a First-Rate Science Fiction Novel: The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
The narrative is bookended by the reminiscences of two older women as they contemplate the environments and societies they inhabit. The…