Star Wars: Resistance Reborn Sets the Stage for a Galactic Final Showdown with the First Order
The end of Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi left the galaxy far, far away in dire straits: the…
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In fiction, the apocalypse is typically a local affair, the global impact notwithstanding. In the early days, survivors might catch…
The Twisted Ones Is the Scariest Book of the Year (and Maybe a Lot Longer than That)
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Gamechanger Offers a Wild, Thoughtful Vision of a Post-Post-Apocalyptic World
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Chilling Effect Is an Off-the-Wall Zany Space Opera with Real Heart
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Deborah Hewitt’s The Nightjar: A Soaring Fantasy Debut
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Powers the Resistance in Sarah Pinsker’s A Song For A New Day
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January Is a Novel That Will Change the Way You Look at Stories
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Superheroes Struggle with Going Public in the Comic Book-Inspired The Nobody People
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A Young Trio of Warriors Is Changed by Their Quest in the Musically Minded Fantasy The Harp of Kings
Though it retains the cozily Celtic, epic flavor of her enduring Sevenwaters saga, Juliet Marillier’s new novel The Harp of Kings marks…
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth Is Your One-Stop-Shop for Space Necromancy, Sarcasm, and Bones
For ten thousand years the empire has endured—nine proud Houses sheltered under the aegis of the Necrolord Prime. But the…
Teens in Space Rocket Toward an Uncertain Future in Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
In the mildly alternate present of Temi Oh’s debut novel Do You Dream of Terra-Two? the Earth is facing the same global…
You Won’t Know Who to Trust Amid the Military Sci-Fi Thrills of Shrouded Loyalties
If nothing else, the title of Reese Hogan’s Shrouded Loyalties is extremely on-point. This fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes place…
First Cosmic Velocity: Oddly Hopeful for a Satire About Dying in Space
First Cosmic Velocity might be the most hopeful novel you’ll ever read about people dying in space. That might sound…
The Ascent to Godhood Ends the Acclaimed Tensorate Series on a Powerful, Personal Note
The Protector is dead. After decades of ruthless rule, the tyrant is no more. Millions struggle to process the passing…
A Genderflipped Holmes and Watson Ride Again in The Hound of Justice
Holmes and Watson reimaginings are practically their own subgenre these days. Arthur Conan Doyle’s infamous detective and his trusty doctor…
All Hail the Gorydamn Epic Intimacy of Pierce Brown’s Dark Age
No one does sci-fi literary spectacle quite like Pierce Brown. In the universe of his Red Rising series, populations are…
Mayan Mythology Meets Jazz Age Odyssey in Gods of Jade and Shadow
Sometimes one quote can speak to the feel of an entire novel. Such a line appears just over a quarter…
Discover the Layers of Language in The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
As the saying goes, “there’s nothing new under the sun,” and that goes double for storytelling. Even the most original…