Science fiction and fantasy writers outdo everyone else at the bookstore when it comes to doorstop-sized epic narratives. Whether the stories span several...

Science fiction is a genre of ideas, and a lot of world-building in sci-fi starts with tweaking one small part of our universe and extrapolating from...

John Scalzi made a name for himself writing science-fiction in one of its classic forms: warfare in space. His excellent Old Man’s War series is a...

It would probably be faster to list all of the awards Ann Leckie didn’t win for her 2013 novel Ancillary Justice.  Her trilogy-launching debut...

Whether through kismet or design, Ann Leckie’s 2013 debut novel, Ancillary Justice, was exactly the right book, released at exactly the right time. It...

Books fade away. The center cannot hold. Even books that were best sellers, that were made into movies, that dominated pop culture for decades, can...

You wouldn’t peg Kameron Hurley as someone who came late to reading. She’s the author of four acclaimed novels, including new epic fantasy The...

Four years on, I’m still shocked by the massive success of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Sure, I expected it to look pretty (it’s HBO after...

Game of Thrones is over for the year. True Blood is getting rather long in the, er, tooth. Under the Dome can’t hold a candle to the book. Your next...