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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

If you’re looking for great books to buy for the holidays, try the 20 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2021, including a list of runners up and other great reads you can find on Amazon or wherever you get books.

FICTIONKatharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison WeirHaving sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixe

Author Becky Chambers returns to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in We’re thrilled to share an excerpt below, along with an interview with Becky Chambers! *** Tor.com: What is the Wayfarers series about, and when and where do those books take place? Becky Chambers: The Wayfarers series is about everyday people living within a fantastic, intergalactic future. I built a very...

Author Becky Chambers returns to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in We’re thrilled to share an excerpt below, along with an interview with Becky Chambers! *** Tor.com: What is the Wayfarers series about, and when and where do those books take place? Becky Chambers: The Wayfarers series is about everyday people living within a fantastic, intergalactic future. I built a very...

Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series, which is concluding with The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, is a nice warm cup of tea when the weather outside is terrible. Sure there are conflicts and sadness but all of that unpleasantness is always outweighed by decency and honesty. It would be tempting to also claim that Chambers’s books are always interwoven with a fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity, which is true but only in the abstract. All of her characters in The Galaxy, and the Gr...

Contemporary life is a busy thing, full of demands and schedules and deadlines and destinations. The same holds true in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer universe, where a cadre of sapient species are part of an intergalactic civilization called the Galactic Commons (GC, for short) with its own rules, expectations, and inequities. It’s natural for those in the GC—just like it’s natural for us humans on Earth—to get lost in the day-to-day of one’s own life and the immediate stressors and conc...