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Kim Stanley Robinson's second novel was a challenging and dazzling odyssey through the solar system, bringing together art and science in a story about the fine line between genius and mad obsessio...
An interstellar empire faces the ultimate natural disaster right in the middle of a fateful transition of power, in this funny, politically charged and surprisingly relevant space opera.
A starship crew awakens in freshly cloned bodies to discover someone murdered them all in their previous lives, and the killer must be at least one of them.
A boy and a girl from enemy nations band together to thwart the evil designs of her tyrannical brother and ruler, in this derivative, tedious exercise in weak worldbuilding and clichés.
Two women must overcome war, amnesia and personal betrayal in order to hatch the only plan that might save their decaying world in this stand-alone saga that melds space opera, quest odyssey, and e...
A young woman enters a race to win her freedom from oppressive poverty, but finds a much different set of challenges than the ones she was expecting. (Reviewed in conjunction with #DiverseAThon.)
A young girl makes a desperate journey from Earth to Mars in an airy solar system where sailing vessels travel the currents between worlds, in this rollicking self-described “Regency interplanetary...
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...
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).
A girl who wants to be a monster and a monster who just wants to be a real boy join forces to prevent war between humans and monsters, in a YA urban fantasy that feels like what we might have gotte...
An untrained young mage must recover a stolen magical icon to save her island nation from ravaging pirate hordes, in this richly imagined but frustratingly incomplete epic fantasy novella.
Surrealism comes alive in the streets of Nazi-occupied Paris, pitting demons against monsters of pure dream, in this wartime thriller that might well qualify as Peak China Miéville.
In this more intimate, yet no less tense sequel to the Hugo & Nebula finalist THE FIFTH SEASON, Essun and her lost daughter Nassun follow different paths, but each must deal with survival in a post...
The chase is on, as a frantic and violent pursuit of a destructive magical artifact spreads across four parallel worlds connected in the city of London.
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.