Dragon’s Egg is a fun, clever look at life evolving on the surface of a neutron star, where one hour…
Author Alastair Reynolds isn’t afraid of big, strange ideas, and he puts on a parade of them in House of…
Science fiction summer: dipping your toes in a pool of hypermercury while basking in the golden daytime aurora, and watching…
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. is brilliant, fast-paced, and will give you sore wrists because it’s a thick, heavy…
The Breach is a fast-paced thriller, a firehose of plot unburdened with character development. A lone hiker in Alaska comes…
The alternate history Never Let Me Go follows the lives of several children who grew up in a strange, special…
"One-hit wonder" has an insult buried in the compliment, but it's hard enough to write a good science fiction novel,…
My kid is learning to play the piano, and part of that is using dynamics: playing some parts of the…
Fantasy author Terry Pratchett is famous for his Discworld series, comprised of over forty books taking place on a round,…
Dieselpunk is science fiction that occurs between the two world wars, or takes place in a world where the 1940s…