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The Best Fantasy Books of 2023

Many of this year's best fantasy books feature plenty of magic, monsters, and mayhem, with dashes (or more than dashes)…

2 years ago

The Best Science Fiction Books of 2023

This past year gave us a lot of stories about environmental catastrophe (not a surprise) and humor (to help us…

2 years ago

Review: <em>The Road to Roswell</em> by Connie Willis

Author Connie Willis outdoes herself with humor and heart in The Road to Roswell, where a stealthy, desperate first contact…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Titanium Noir</em> by Nick Harkaway

Titanium Noir is an excellent near-future alternate-history murder mystery that follows the murder of a Titan, a medically-enhanced person who…

2 years ago

The Best Modern Military Science Fiction Books

The best military science fiction isn’t just a bunch of space battles and cigar-chomping armed combat (although those are fun).…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Truth of the Divine</em> by Lindsay Ellis

Despite its title, Truth of the Divine is not a religious text, but a fun, fast-paced, clever science fiction adventure.…

2 years ago

Review: <em>More Than Human</em> by Theodore Sturgeon

More Than Human is widely lauded as the first literary science fiction book, and it won the first Hugo back…

2 years ago

Review: <em>Gravity</em> by Tess Gerritsen

Gravity is mildly retro, having been written in the 1990s and features several space shuttles, but it’s one of the…

2 years ago

The Best Hard Science Fiction Books by Women

Why yes, ladies can bring the techno-wow as much as the gents.   (more…)

2 years ago

Review: <em>Daemon</em> by Daniel Suarez

I had thought the near-future Daemon was a YA book, but nope, it is definitely not. No Y, all A.…

2 years ago