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…
Science Fiction
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…
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.…
14 Color-Coded Sci-Fi & Fantasy Sagas
Here’s a trope that pops up in sci-fi and fantasy stories more than you might realize: societies broken down by…
Cixin Liu’s Ball Lightning Is a Tense, Thoughtful Examination of Scientific Obsession
The 2014 release of the English translation of Cixin Liu’s trilogy-opener The Three-Body Problem, already a massive success in China, hit…
After the Revolution: Revenant Gun Ends a Strikingly Complex Space Opera Trilogy
It’s easy, in so many ways, to write revolutions; the harder thing to write is the aftermath. Revenant Gun, the…
10 Harlan Ellison Short Stories That Changed Sci-Fi
There will never be another Harlan Ellison. Insanely talented, incredibly smart, legendarily prickly and difficult, and difficult to get along…
The Uncanny Aftereffects of 5 Uncanny Stories
Uncanny Magazine, two-time winner of the Hugo Award, is one of our favorite sources for fantastic sci-fi and fantasy short…
5 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Spoofs That Stand on Their Own
Reverence is 99 percent understanding and one percent irreverence. I might have just made up that axiom, but I stand…
15 Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels That Began as Short Stories
Short stories have always occupied a singular status in the literary world, and are often considered at a remove from…
4 Stories with Awesome Autistic Protagonists
Today we announced Ada Hoffman’s forthcoming sci-fi novel The Outside, arriving in 2019 from Angry Robot Books. Because the book’s…
Reverse Engineering the Future: Becky Chambers on Record of a Spaceborn Few
Many of the characters in this book feel really close to home, from the exhausted mother trying to get her…
Generation Z Saves the World from Aliens in Annex
Five pages into Annex, the debut novel by Rich Larson (best known as the prolific author of much-anthologized short fiction), I…
Space Unicorn Blues Is More Than a Silly Space Adventure
A unicorn walks into a bar…. When the murderer Gary Cobalt trotted into the Bitter Blossom, he nearly gave himself…
Empire of Silence Signals the Arrival of an Epic Science Fiction Talent
A hero to some, a monster to many more, Christopher Ruocchio’s chunky, ambitious debut Empire of Silence introduces Hadrian Marlowe, a reviled…
A Big Ship At the Edge of the Universe Delivers Big Space Opera Fun
A few chapters into A Big Ship At the Edge of the Universe, a marvelous new space opera from Alex White (Every…
Well-Suited: 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Inspired by the Tarot
For something so universally recognizable, most people know little about the tarot outside of its supposed ability, with the help…