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19 Best Science Fiction Books of 2016

The future had a good year in 2016. Great writing, amazing stories, and tons of genre-bending. Fantasy, romance, zombies, data-vampires…

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Review: <em>Ancillary Justice</em> by Ann Leckie

The Justice of Toren was a colossal starship run by an artificial intelligence. That intelligence also linked thousands of human…

9 years ago

23 Best Spunky Heroine Science Fiction Books

Lou: "You know what? You've got spunk." Mary: "Well, ye—" Lou: "I hate spunk!" — First episode of The The…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Pushing Ice</em> by Alastair Reynolds

In Pushing Ice, one of Saturn’s moons suddenly departs from its orbit and shoots off into deep space. The only…

10 years ago

29 Best Transhuman Science Fiction Books

Transhumanism is the idea of using technology to (hopefully) improve the human condition. This can run the gamut from contact…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Mooncop</em> by Tom Gauld

Mooncop is an oddly beautiful piece of work about the last policeman on the moon. Short and simply drawn, it's…

10 years ago

31 Best Literary Science Fiction Books

Literary science fiction is simply science fiction that's better-written, has more realistic characters, and is more ambitious in exploring deep…

10 years ago

Review: <em>A Darkling Sea</em> by James L. Cambias

As a lapsed marine zoologist, I couldn’t help but love A Darkling Sea. It has aliens, intrigue, desperate missions, and…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Echopraxia</em> by Peter Watts

I have a bad habit of getting excited by a book and skimming, eager to find out what happens next.…

10 years ago

23 Best Alternate History Books

Since the present time is just the wildly unlikely result of several trillion coincidences, it makes sense that humans would…

10 years ago