6 Books that Break Genre Barriers
Writing a book that blends the conventions of more than one genre is admirable. Writing a book that incorporates as…
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Night of the Animals Is a Gorgeous Apocalyptic Debut
Night of the Animals, the literary science-fantasy debut novel by Bill Broun, is nothing short of wonderful. With concrete prose, strangely beautiful…
5 Massive Space Operas to Read Between Marathon Sessions of No Man’s Sky
No Man’s Sky is the most talked-about game of the summer, a massive space exploration sim boasting a universe so vast, the…
5 Ted Chiang Stories That Deserve Adaptations
It’s no secret that Stories of Your Life and Others is a classic among science fiction short fiction collections. Between its imaginative…
A Roadmap to the Work of Jeff Noon, the Most Original Sci-Fi Writer You (Probably) Haven’t Read
On Friday, Angry Robot Books announced plans to releases two new novels by Jeff Noon, allowing a brace of new readers…
6 Standalone SFF Books That Earn Their Epic Pagecounts
Large books just don’t get enough love. It’s true, economy of language is a thing to be celebrated, but there’s…
10 Things You Should Never Do While Time Traveling
We all have a wishlist of things we’d do if time travel were possible. It’s a common human fantasy: who wouldn’t…
The Race Is a Metafictional, Science-Fictional Mindbender
Nina Allan’s debut novel The Race is the best kind of metafiction: while the novel’s structure is incredibly engaging and easy…
Time Siege Is One Summer Blockbuster Sequel That Doesn’t Disappoint
In Time Siege, the second volume of Wesley Chu’s series of time-travel thrillers that began with Time Salavger, expands its scope to the…
5 Books That Find Beauty in the Apocalypse
The apocalypse is an event usually rendered in lurid shades of deep despair. It’s only natural—the extermination of all life on earth…
Escapology Is an Electric Cyberpunk Debut
I wish more first novels were as good Escapology. Ren Warom’s debut throws a staggering number of concepts into the mix, and juggles…
6 of the Strangest Political Systems in SFF
If this election cycle has taught us anything, it’s that politics is strange enough, even before you mix in magic and futuristic…
6 of the Most Fearsome Warbands in Fantasy
Warbands offer a unique opportunity for fantasy authors. For one, it’s easy to illustrate the morality (or lack thereof) of a…
Infomocracy Is a Near-Future Political Thriller with Terrifying Present-Day Implications
It’s a rare thing to find a book that accurately captures the mundane and insidious absurdity of politics, but Infomocracy gets…
Mongrels Uses Werewolf Mythology to Tell the Story of a Family
In Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones tears down and rebuilds the werewolf mythos. No longer held sway by the cycles of the moon,…
5 Books That Give Old Legends a New Spin
Myths and legends are a keystone of any culture, and certainly of genre writing—the new stories that draw from history,…
Hex Is a Suburban Gothic Nightmare
The suburbia-as-purgatory trope is given a black magic twist in Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s Hex, a gothic nightmare set in a hermetically sealed town descending into chaos…
Almost Infamous Will Have You Rooting for the Bad Guys
With Almost Infamous, his first solo novel, Matt Carter does something few comic book satires have attempted: instead of making the heroes…
4 Entry Points into the Mad Multiverse of Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock has left an indelible impression on science fiction and fantasy. Over more than five decades, he has played an instrumental…
5 Books that Show Us the Weirder Side of the Wild West
The American West is a perfect fit for the fantasy genre: it’s already been mythologized to Tartarus and back by countless…