The Rift Puts a Speculative Twist on the Missing Persons Thriller
The Rift, Nina Allan’s bleak but no less beautiful follow-up to The Race, is ostensibly about the mystery surrounding the 20-year disappearance…
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The Queen of Swords Is Feminist as Hell
The Queen of Swords, the third installment of R.S. Belcher’s Golgotha series, is also the first to take place outside the confines…
The Kill Society, Sandman Slim Is Dead, But Can Still Bring the Violence
The Kill Society, the ninth book in Richard Kadrey’s wildly popular saga of Sandman Slim, definitely takes the series to…
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. Is a Ridiculously Charming Time Travel Romp
It feels odd to call a sci-fi book about magic and time travel “endearing,” but that’s the best word I…
Virology Is a Bigger, Bolder, Weirder Cyberpunk Sequel
Ren Warom’s Escapology took cyberpunk on a wild ride through a slick, stylized mega-city full of monstrous villains and Lovecraftian…
With The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks Perfected His Space Opera
The Scottish author Iain Banks famously led a double life in publishing. Some of his books—the ones published under the name…
7 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Road Trips You Definitely Don’t Want to Join
Nothing quite says “summer” like a good old-fashioned road trip. With a ribbon of road unspooling endlessly before you, it…
6 Space Operas That Explore the Comedic Side of the Cosmos
The term “space opera” conjures grand vistas, massive spaceships, multi-threaded plots of romance and intrigue, dashing protagonists, and dastardly villains,…
Netherspace Brings Space Opera to a Truly Alien Universe
Netherspace is a new space opera from Andrew Lane and Nigel Foster. Probably. It certainly takes an interesting approach to the genre—you’ll be…
Change Agent Is a Brainy Techno-Thriller with Wit to Match
Change Agent, the new novel from technothriller mastermind Daniel Suarez (Daemon), strikes a rare balance. On one hand, it’s a fast-paced dystopian…
The Boy on the Bridge Is a Worthy Companion to One of the Best Zombie Novels in Years
The Boy on the Bridge is a companion novel to M.R. Carey’s 2014 bestseller The Girl with All the Gifts. Like that…
Borne Examines Sapience Through a Biopunk Lens
Borne is the first new novel from Jeff VanderMeer since 2014, when Annihilation, the unsettling story of untrustworthy biologist exploring a swampy alien…
Walkaway Provides the Blueprints to Build a Better Utopia
As a writer and futurist, Cory Doctorow makes a living trying to figure out how to build a better world. His latest…
Void Star Is Literary Cyberpunk for Today’s Future
Void Star, the second novel by Zachary Mason, is a dizzying, astonishing read. Though published as “literary fiction” (meaning, you…
Witchy Eye Is a Flintlock Fantasy of a Different Breed
Witchy Eye, D.J. Butler’s major-publisher debut, is dense and packed full of ideas, but it all fits together seamlessly. It’s a wild…
Chalk Explores the Surreal Horror of Adolescence
Chalk, the new novel by Paul Cornell, is the kind of book you stay up nights reading because you need to find…
A Perfect Machine Is the Best Sci-Fi Movie You’ve Never Seen
A Perfect Machine, the third novel by former ChiZine Press co-publisher Brett Savory, might be the best sci-fi action film you’ve…
