The Humans is an excellent dark comedy that sticks an alien, who hates humans, in a human mathematician’s body, and…
You don’t often see tense, page-turner science fiction with fungus as a starring role, but The Genius Plague by David…
The Grand Dark’s main draw is its steampunk-inspired world-building, which is excellent. Most of the action takes place in the…
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…
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 alternate history Never Let Me Go follows the lives of several children who grew up in a strange, special…
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,…
The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman is a wild, inventive ride. It takes place in a seriously alternate version of…