Take a Weird, Wild Road Trip with Tim Powers in Alternate Routes
Tim Powers is the author to turn to if you want to uncover the secret history beneath the truths you…
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10 Years of Terror: 7 Standout Stories from The Best of the Best Horror of the Year
The Best Horror of the Year anthology series turned 10 this year, a decade of celebrating the darkest gems of the…
Charlaine Harris’s An Easy Death Starts a Wild New Supernatural Adventure
Fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels (the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood) will find familiar pleasures in her new…
Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Is a Groundbreaking Future Noir
In the Nigeria of the mid-21st century, a makeshift town has sprung up around a mysterious dome that inexplicably appeared…
No Heroes, Only Vicious Villains, in V.E. Schwab’s Superhero Epic Vengeful
In the years since the publication of her adult debut novel Vicious in 2013, Victoria “V.E.” Schwab has leveled up…
How to Invent Everything Is a Hilariously Essential Guide for Would-Be Time Travelers
You’re a time traveler, lost and alone somewhere in Earth’s history. You’ve got a busted time machine that you have…
State Tectonics Is an Earthshaking Exploration of a Plausible Political Future
State Tectonics, the third volume of Malka Older’s Centenal Cycle trilogy, is simultaneously a riveting political thriller and the very…
The Personal, the Political, and the Giant Robots: Peter Tieryas’ Mecha Samurai Empire
In United States of Japan, Peter Tieryas created a smart, timely novel built on the structure of Philip K. Dick’s…
A Letter to My Daughter about Mecha, and Family
Peter Tieryas’ United States of Japan was one of the strongest sci-fi novels of 2016, a spiritual successor to Philip…
Hank Green’s Debut Is An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Before Hank Green was a buzzy debut author, he was a social media superstar, so it’s no wonder that his…
Salvation Is a Twisty Space Opera Thriller
Among space opera aficionados, Peter F. Hamilton is best known for the Commonwealth novels, a centuries-spanning sci-fi saga pitting utopian…
Port of Shadows: A Chronicle of the Black Company Marks the Return of a Low Fantasy Legend
In 1984, in an effort to portray fantasy from the level of the military grunt, Glen Cook dreamed up the Black…
A Countdown to Disaster: Walter Jon Williams’ The Accidental War
The galactic empire is at peace following the revolt that was the subject of the first Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy.…
Witness a Millennial Apocalypse in Ling Ma’s Severance
There are many ways to write the apocalypse, and what lies beyond it. “Last night” stories detail incidences of violence…
Deep Roots Delves Further into Lovecraft’s Mythos
After the Innsmouth Raid in 1928, the survivors were sent off to internment camps, where they were eventually joined with…
Secrets Are Revealed and Characters Deepened in the Expanded Edition of Solo: A Star Wars Story
For a minute there, movie novelizations seemed to have fallen out of favor and, when they did exist, were tightly…
Drizzt Returns in Timeless, a Fast and Furious Fantasy
For 30 years, R.A. Salvatore has crafted a rich and wondrous history for the setting of the Forgotten Realms, a…
In Ahab’s Return, Stories Are the Great White Whale
Stories can change your life. Maybe they won’t, and maybe they shouldn’t (that is, after all, a lot to put on any…
A Thief Saves a City in the Weird, Wonderful Foundryside
In Robert Jackson Bennett’s Foundryside, a young thief is caught up in the machinations of wealthy lords and ancient magics,…
Bloody Rose: Hard-Rocking Epic Fantasy Sequel That Goes to 11
A band is a family. In Kings of the Wyld, the first book in Nicholas Eames series following mercenary bands…