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An ambitious approach to narrative technique and graphic design enhances this otherwise derivative space opera in which refugees from a colony world are beset by pursuing enemies, shipboard plague ...
In this dystopian spec-fic classic, the tenants of a luxury apartment tower begin to turn on one another in ever-escalating fits of violent class warfare.
The discovery of a disassembled battle robot buried around the globe nearly 6000 years ago leads to troubling questions about humanity’s past, and puts the world in a precarious state of military b...
In this often dazzling, art-deco, retro-future planetary romance, a young woman has vanished under mysterious circumstances while directing a documentary on Venus, and decades later the search goes...
Can a washed-up physicist, his not-terribly-sane former colleague, and a rogue AI crack the barriers of time and space, solve the Fermi Paradox, and discover the true nature of the universe?
(Note: This review contains mild spoilers for previous books in this trilogy.) Mysteries piled on enigmas wrapped in puzzles. Though structurally the trilogy’s choppiest, ACCEPTANCE wraps up Jeff V...
A man desperately searches for his missing wife in a future devastated by a global wave of telepathic madness and mob violence in this tense Nebula-nominated dystopia.
In the year 2018, a privately funded manned expedition to Mars may have discovered evidence of life in underground caves. But with technical problems plaguing their mission, plus the imminent arriv...
A failed attempt to terraform an alien world sends a young man on a race against time to save the lives of his fellow colonists in this epic adventure.
A genetically enhanced superwoman takes the fight to those who created and enslaved her in this short, sharp, angry shock from Afrofuturist Nnedi Okorafor.
Look here for all your Victorian airship-flying corset-and-goggle-wearing brass-robot needs (but not gaslamp fantasy, which will go on the Fantasy playlist).
A young woman living a double life as her own brother finds danger and treachery as she searches for a missing man and a miraculous machine in this smartly-crafted steampunk thriller.
Most categories of fantasy reviewed here: epic, historical, magical realism, maybe a little urban (but definitely no para-rom or sparkle-vampire crap).
She does magic, he does science, and they just might be perfect for each other if they don’t unwittingly destroy the world first. io9 editor Anders’ urban fantasy debut is brimming over with warmth...
In a land where only men are allowed to pursue music and poetry, a young female singer may be the only hope to restore magic to musicians and prevent evil sorcery from spreading a horrific plague. ...
In 1849, a young girl with the power to divine the presence of gold heads west to join the California Gold Rush and escape the clutches of her parents’ killer.
Yarvi never wanted to be king. But now he'll do anything to recover his throne, after experiencing war, betrayal and slavery. Ostensibly YA, Joe Abercrombie’s newest trilogy-opener has bone-crunchi...
Patrick Rothfuss gives epic fantasy the Manic Pixie Dream Girl story it wasn’t asking for in this aimless, meandering novella even he admits should have been a trunk story.
In this devastating epic, an ambitious young woman schemes to bring down an empire from within by rising to a position of high authority. But how far is she willing to go — and what kind of person ...
A sinister, uncharted forest deep within colonial Africa draws adventurers into its haunted depths in this dreamlike epic that entangles history and New Weird fiction.
The haunting, eerily beautiful yet often emotionally troubling odyssey of an elderly Briton couple living in post-Arthurian medieval England, who set out on a journey to reunite with their son, acr...
Unquiet ghosts and fading memories, secrets and lies, the monsters that lurk deep within ourselves, and the blurred lines between imagination and real life — these are the stories and poems that ma...
An electrifying and career-defining novel, Kameron Hurley's The Mirror Empire propels us into a fantasy world that aggressively up-ends genre tropes and forces a rethinking of reader assumptions re...
A haunted mansion, encrypted messages, a secret society, ancient artifacts, esoteric mysteries... with all that going for you, how could you fail? Not sure, but this book manages.