A Bad Deal For the Whole Galaxy Is a Great Deal For Space Opera Fans
At one point in Alex White’s A Bad Deal For the Whole Galaxy, the ne’er-do-well crew of the Capricious is simultaneously engaged…
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After The Handmaid’s Tale: 7 Recent, Essential Feminist Dystopias
No one wants to live in a dystopia, but we’re certainly living in the golden age of feminist dystopian novels.…
Hazards of Time Travel Follows a Girl’s Harrowing Journey from the Future to the Past
Legendarily prolific, multi-award winning author Joyce Carol Oates hasn’t left too many genre stones unturned in her long career, but…
Reality and Memory Collide in Lavie Tidhar’s Unholy Land
In Lavie Tidhar’s new novel Unholy Land, a suspiciously similarly named pulp writer Liro Tirosh returns to his homeland of Palestina,…
50 of the Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut Novels Ever Written
tThe ability to write a great novel is some mysterious proportion of natural talent and hard-won mastery of the craft,…
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Collide at the End of the World in Mage Against the Machine
When you pick up a book billed as Harry Potter meets The Terminator, you’d best be prepared to embark on…
11 Works of Trans-Positive Science Fiction & Fantasy
Science Fiction and fantasy have explored with different ideas of gender for decades, but in the last few years, we’ve…
Reassessing 6 Works from an Astounding Era of Science Fiction
During his tenure as an editor, Campbell discovered and nurtured a group of writers who would go on to stand…
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon Has a Lot to Say About Life on Earth
It’s a science fiction tradition so reliable, you can all but set your watch by it: another year, another Kim…
Zero Sum Game Is a Sci-Fi Thrill Ride… About Math
It’s rare for an author to maintain the sort of balancing act S. L. Huang pulls off with apparent ease…
An Astounding Work of Science Fiction History
Campbell began his career as a physicist, and wrote science fiction himself. Though he produced one classic work in Who…
Fighting Post-Hitchhiker’s Disorder: 6 Essential Books for Douglas Adams Fans
It’s a well-known affliction in the science fiction community: Post-Hitchhiker’s Disorder. After slamming down Douglas Adams’ epic five-part trilogy (you heard me)…
5 Plausible Science Fiction Novels in the Spirit of First Man
That intersection between reality and such a perfectly plausible—but incredibly rare or difficult—scenario is where the movement known as “mundane…
Street Freaks Is the Souped-Up Sci-Fi Adventure We Never Expected from Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks has an epically long history in epic fantasy. Alongside works from Katherine Kurtz and Stephen R. Donaldson, his…
10 Books for Fans of Netflix’s Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Series Maniac
Maniac, the new love it or hate it Netflix series from writer Patrick Somerville and director Cary Joji Fukunaga, is…
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…
The 25 Most Important Questions: Revealing The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
Now that he’s wrapped up The Thermis Files trilogy, Neuvel is doing something altogether different. His next book is a provocative…
Tales of Two Drowned Cities: New York 2140 and Blackfish City
In his science fantasy novel Blackfish City , Sam J. Miller posits that “all cities are science experiments.” As experiments…
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…