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

Traveling beyond our world has inspired many a work of speculative fiction. Here are our picks for the best books, shows, and movies to take you along for the ride.

Mary Robinette Kowal discusses The Relentless Moon, the latest entry in her multi-award-winning Lady Astronaut alternate history series.

Here’s a scintillating selection of the best sci-fi books of 2022, with modern hits and sci-fi classics for you to enjoy.

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

Graham Sleight (2015) by Francesca Myman Publishing lead-times being what they are, the extraordinary events of 2020 largely weren’t reflected in the books that came out in the year – or at least, not intentionally. I managed to read a good deal of thought-provoking SF and fantasy this year, but some books seemed even more relevant than expected because of the pandemic-shuttered world they emerged into. How posterity will view them – let alone how it’ll view the books that’ll doubtles...

I was so excited to see my book being labeled ‘hopepunk’ in early reviews, because hope is something I feel very strongly about when it comes to climate stories. I believe there’s a place for stories of warning and doom and apocalypse, but there is also a place for the narratives of good people succeeding, of resilient relationships withstanding stress and conflict, of a natural world waiting for us to simply move with it instead of against it. And so I’m pleased to share five of my fav...

This blog marks a transition for me. For more than 20 years, I have been reviewing science books written for the library and bookstore crowd. For a few of those years, I even managed a four-figure supplemental income from selling my reviews to major metropolitan newspapers. Then, one-by-one, book review pages began to disappear or cut back on freelance contributions. Still, I enjoyed the work so much that I continued doing it, even for the limited income produced by blogging, eventually produci...