9 Novels that Prove Time Travel Would Solve All Our Problems
Whereas I’d wager that if we all had access to our own personal time machines, we’d mostly use them to…
Science Fiction
Superheroes Struggle with Going Public in the Comic Book-Inspired The Nobody People
In any society, the idea of what constitutes “normal” is completely arbitrary—a thin veneer of consensus under which human beings…
Whatever Happened to Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar?
The Familiar was supposed to be a magnum opus: an ambitious serial novel told in twenty-seven massive volumes, split into…
A Reading List Inspired by the 20th Anniversary of The Matrix (and That Sequel Announcement)
Speaking of: last month, Lana Wachowski announced she had started work on a fourth Matrix film, working from a script…
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth Is Your One-Stop-Shop for Space Necromancy, Sarcasm, and Bones
For ten thousand years the empire has endured—nine proud Houses sheltered under the aegis of the Necrolord Prime. But the…
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…
You Won’t Know Who to Trust Amid the Military Sci-Fi Thrills of Shrouded Loyalties
If nothing else, the title of Reese Hogan’s Shrouded Loyalties is extremely on-point. This fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes place…
7 Unlikely Science Fictional Uprisings
Frodo is a suicide bomber. That may not be what Tolkien had in mind when he wrote The Lord of…
18 Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels That Get Serious About Economics
Speculative fiction often employs a deliberate vagueness when it comes to the economics of fictional universes. In fantasy novels, gold…
15 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books That Take You on a World Tour
It’s nothing new to point out how much epic fantasy is based on a pretty narrow swath of human culture.…
First Cosmic Velocity: Oddly Hopeful for a Satire About Dying in Space
First Cosmic Velocity might be the most hopeful novel you’ll ever read about people dying in space. That might sound…
Twenty Years of The Iron Giant
Unfortunately, the audiences in question were very small—though the movie is justifiably beloved in 2019, its initial impact was limited:…
Dune: A Newbie’s Guide
Dune. It’s that book about spice or whatever, right? Yes, random person I met on the sidewalk. It’s that book…
A Genderflipped Holmes and Watson Ride Again in The Hound of Justice
Holmes and Watson reimaginings are practically their own subgenre these days. Arthur Conan Doyle’s infamous detective and his trusty doctor…
All Hail the Gorydamn Epic Intimacy of Pierce Brown’s Dark Age
No one does sci-fi literary spectacle quite like Pierce Brown. In the universe of his Red Rising series, populations are…
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…
The Last Astronaut Author David Wellington on the Most Important Decision Every Science Fiction Writer Must Make
By now most fans of science fiction will have heard the absolutely true and vital argument that science fiction writers…
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…
Howling Dark Is a Slow-Burn Journey into a Compelling Sci-Fi Universe
Christopher Ruocchio made a splash last year with an impressive science fiction debut in Empire of Silence, the ambitious opening novel…
This Is How You Lose the Time War Is a Time Travel Romance with Teeth
Universes collide, literally, in This is How You Lose the Time War , a layered, emotionally complex time travel-cum-romance from award-winning co-authors Amal…