New Books in Science Fiction

Science Fiction: 101 (Roc, 2014) isn’t just an “exploration of the craft of science fiction” as its subtitle says; it’s ... Read more

For Blue and Red—arch enemies at the center of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s epistolary novella, This is How You Lo... Read more

Full Fathom Five (Tor, 2014) the third and most recent novel in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence, features dying divinitie... Read more

The Prey of the Gods, published by Harper Voyager on June 13th, is Nicky Drayden‘s debut novel, though she’s published m... Read more

I first learned about Felix Gilman‘s work from the influential academic blog Crooked Timber. I proceeded to read Thunder... Read more

R.S. Belcher‘s first book, Six-Gun Tarot (Tor, 2013), has receive widespread praise in the online reviewing community. I... Read more

Sam J. Miller loves cities. He lives in one, has a day job dedicated to making urban life more humane and fair, and has ... Read more

In this episode, Rob Wolf speaks with Stephen Baxter, author of The Massacre of Mankind (Crown, 2017), the alliterative... Read more

[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math]I’ve admitted before that Physics and I have never gotten along. But, sc... Read more

Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day (Berkley, 2019) explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a s... Read more

Hugh C. Howey, author of the award-winning Molly Fyde Saga, is best known for his self-published and bestselling series ... Read more

Rob Wolf interviews Becky Chambers, author of the Wayfarer series. The first book, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet... Read more

To catch the people who killed her environmentalist father, the main character of Karl Schroeder’s Stealing Worlds (Tor ... Read more

Underground Airlines (Mulholland Books, 2016) is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story o... Read more

Humans might one day escape Earth, but escaping our biases may prove much harder.That’s one of the lessons from Rivers S... Read more

The pandemic in Peng Shepherd’s debut novel, The Book of M, starts with magic—the disappearance of a man’s shadow.The oc... Read more

Ah, science fiction: Aliens? Absolutely. Robots? Of course. But why are there so many priests in space? As Jim Clarke wr... Read more

Before Apollo 11, there was Jules Verne’s novel From the Earth to the Moon. Before the Internet, there was Mark Twain’s ... Read more

Cory Doctorow has described Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning (Tor, 2016) as a book “more intricate, more plausible, m... Read more

Jack Chen is a drug pirate, illegally fabricating patented pharmaceuticals in an underground lab. But when she discovers... Read more