New Books in Science Fiction

Tochi Onyebuchi, "Goliath" (Tordotcom, 2022)

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tochi Onyebuchi’s new novel Goliath (Tordotcom, 2022) features a phenomenon familiar to those of us who live in cities—gentrification. Like the...

Ron Walters, "Deep Dive" (Angry Robot, 2022)

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Why not just torture this main character and make his children completely disappear?” That’s the terrifying premise behind Deep Dive (Angry R...

Matthew C. Kruger, "What The Living Know: A Novel of Suicide and Philosophy" (Nfb Publishing, 2020)

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Now that science has granted eternal life and youth to all, the world is a place of endless opportunity to live out one's dreams and fulfill one's des...

Dan Hanks, "Swashbucklers" (Angry Robot, 2021)

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most people believe that when they grow up, they need to “put away childish things”—a wise strategy for holding a job, paying the rent and raisi...

Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The late 1970s to the mid-1980s, a period commonly referred to as the post-Mao cultural thaw, was a key transitional phase in the evolution of Chinese...

Patricia A. Jackson, "Forging a Nightmare" (Angry Robot, 2021)

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia A. Jackson’s debut novel Forging a Nightmare immerses the reader in a world of menace-—fallen angels and demigods whose history of alli...

Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis, "2034: A Novel of the Next World War" (Penguin, 2021)

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The next world war is 13 years away—that is, if you live in the world envisioned by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis, 2034: A Novel of the Ne...

Phil M. Cohen, "Nick Bones Underground" (Koehler Books, 2019)

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shmulie Shimmer is the inventor of LERBS, the most popular designer drug ever to be created. Turns out that it leaves people brain dead, and Shmulie s...

Jennifer Marie Brissett, "Destroyer of Light" (Tor Books, 2021)

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Destroyer of Light (Tor Books, 2021) is Jennifer Marie Brissett’s long-awaited follow up to her critically acclaimed debut Elysium, winner of a P...

Ryka Aoki, "Light From Uncommon Stars" (Tor Books, 2021)

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ryka Aoki’s new novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (Tor Books, 2021), is packed with as much variety as a box of lovingly prepared assorted donuts f...

Cadwell Turnbull, "No Gods, No Monsters" (Blackstone, 2021)

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cadwell Turnbull appeared on New Books in Science Fiction two years ago to discuss his debut novel, The Lesson, about an alien invasion and coloni...

S. Qiouyi Lu, "In the Watchful City" (Tordotcom, 2021)

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s no coincidence that one of the main characters in S. Qiouyi Lu’s In the Watchful City carries with ser a qíjìtáng, or cabinet of curios...

Jackson Ford, "Eye of the Sh*t Storm" (Orbit, 2021)

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jackson Ford has some things in common with his protagonist, Teagan Frost. Both use nom de plumes. And both can move sh*t. With her telekinetic powe...

Gautam Bhatia, "The Wall" (Harper Collins, 2020)

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gautam Bhatia’s debut novel The Wall (Harper Collins, 2020) is set in Sumer, a city enclosed in an impenetrable, unscalable barrier that seems sk...

Sarah Gailey, "The Echo Wife" (Tor Books, 2021)

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Where does DNA end and the soul begin? It’s a question that Evelyn Caldwell, the brilliant genetic researcher at the center of Sarah Gailey’s Th...

Andy Weir, "Project Hail Mary: A Novel" (Ballantine Books, 2021)

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A story about an alien invasion typically revolves around diplomacy, military strategy, technological one-upmanship, and brinksmanship. But the invade...

Adrian Tchaikovsky, "The Doors of Eden" (Orbit, 2020)

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Doors of Eden (Orbit, 2020) the multiverse is filled with parallel Earths where evolution takes different twists and...

Ginger Smith, "The Rush's Edge" (Angry Robot, 2020)

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Space operas take readers far from Earth with stories about alien cultures and battles between good and evil. But while usually set in distant galaxie...

Robbie Arnott, "The Rain Heron" (FSG Originals, 2021)

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of its life, the phoenix bursts into flames and a younger bird rises from the ashes. The roc is large enough to carry an elephant in its cl...

Alison Stine, "Road Out of Winter" (Mira Books, 2020)

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes you come across a book that pulls you in from every angle. It offers you the space to explore your own fears and hopes all while taking you ...

S. B. Divya, "Machinehood" (Gallery/Saga Press, 2021)

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The title of S. B. Divya’s debut novel, Machinehood (Gallery/Saga Press, 2021), refers to an underground band of rebels (or terrorists, dependin...

Chris Panatier, "The Phlebotomist" (Angry Robot, 2020)

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Humans have found many ways to divide and stratify—by skin color, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, health status, b...

R. W. W. Greene, "The Light Years" (Angry Robot, 2020)

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Arranged marriages have been around for centuries, and in The Light Years (Angry Robot, 2020), R.W.W. Greene imagines they’ll be around for cent...

Rebecca Roanhorse, "Black Sun" (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020)

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The first chapter of Rebecca Roanhorse’s new novel, Black Sun (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020), features a mother and child sharing a tender moment tha...

Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Ministry for the Future" (Hachette, 2020)

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, 2020) is a sweeping novel about climate change and how people of the near future start to slow, stop and reverse...

Paul Kingsnorth, "Alexandria" (Graywolf Press, 2020)

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last ten years, Paul Kingsnorth has become recognised as one of the most extraordinary of contemporary writers. After The Wake, which was ...

Alix E. Harrow, "The Once and Future Witches" (Redhook, 2020)

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alix E. Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches (Redhook, 2020) begins with the familiar phrase “Once upon a time” but the novel is anything but ...

P. Djèlí Clark, "Ring Shout" (Tordotcom, 2020)

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

P. Djèlí Clark’s new novella, Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the ...

Jasper Fforde, "The Constant Rabbit" (Viking, 2020)

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Jasper Fforde’s The Constant Rabbit (Viking, 2020), residents of the United Kingdom live among human-sized anthropomorphized rabbits. The rabbits...

Diane Cook, "The New Wilderness" (Harper, 2020)

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diane Cook’s The New Wilderness (Harper, 2020) is a poignant portrait of a mother and daughter fleeing the polluted cities of a near-future dystopi...

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In NeuroScience Fiction (Benbella Books, 2020), Rodrigo Quian Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are be...

Madeline Ashby, "ReV: The Machine Dynasty, Book III" (Angry Robot, 2020)

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Writers and readers of science fiction love stories about artificial intelligence, robots, and mechanical beings whose sentience mirrors, matches or e...

Premee Mohamed, "Beneath the Rising" (Solaris, 2020)

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Premee Mohamed’s debut novel, Beneath the Rising (Solaris, 2020) came out in March, but don’t call her a new writer. “I find it funny that peopl...

Ilze Hugo, "The Down Days" (Skybound Books, 2020)

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication. But that’s what happened to Ilze Hugo, whose novel about a myst...

Tochi Onyebuchi, "Riot Baby" (Tor.com, 2020)

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby (Tor.com, 2020) tells the story of two siblings—Ella, who is gifted with powers of precognition and telekinesis, and ...

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...

Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book, Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Brian ...

Megan E. O'Keefe, "Velocity Weapon" (Orbit, 2019)

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Velocity Weapon (Orbit, 2019) by Megan E. O’Keefe centers on siblings: Biran, a member of an elite cadre that controls the interstellar gates by whi...

Laura Lam, "Goldilocks" (Orbit, 2020)

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Lam’s new book Goldilocks (Orbit, 2020) takes readers into space with an all-female crew bound for a distant Earth-like planet. The all-female...

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B...

Tyler Hayes, "The Imaginary Corpse" (Angry Robot, 2019)

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Hayes's The Imaginary Corpse (Angry Robot, 2019) offers an escape from the unending stress of the Covid-19 pandemic with three simple words: p...

Ken Liu, "The Hidden Girl and Other Stories" (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020)

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their child...

K. M. Szpara, "Docile" (Tor.com, 2020)

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Docile (Tor.com, 2020), the debut novel by K.M. Szpara, people pay off family debts by working as indentured personal assistants to the ultra-wealt...

Karl Schroeder, "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2019)

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

To catch the people who killed her environmentalist father, the main character of Karl Schroeder’s Stealing Worlds (Tor Books, 2019) disappears int...

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Philli...

Nino Cipri, "Homesick: Stories" (Dzanc Books, 2019)

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When Nino Cipri entered the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest, they had no expectation of winning, so when they won, they were shocked. The prize...

Kameron Hurley, "The Light Brigade" (Saga Press, 2019)

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Some war stories emphasize heroism and a higher purpose; others emphasize brutality and disillusionment. The first kind of story got Dietz, the narrat...

Mike Chen, "A Beginning at the End" (MIRA, 2020)

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The end of the world is no excuse for eating French fries. That’s a lesson 7-year-old Sunny Donelly learns from her father, Rob, who tries to give h...

Seanan McGuire, "Middlegame" (Tor.com, 2019)

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Science fiction and fantasy often feature characters who seek absolute control (over a kingdom, country, world, galaxy or universe), but few break dow...

K Chess, "Famous Men Who Never Lived" (Tin House, 2019)

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Famous Men Who Never Lived (Tin House, 2019) is set in two Brooklyns. In one, people ride in trams; in the other, they take subways. In one, the swas...

Sarah Pinsker, "A Song for a New Day" (Berkley, 2019)

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day (Berkley, 2019) explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a dead...

Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy" (Gylphi, 2019)

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ah, science fiction: Aliens? Absolutely. Robots? Of course. But why are there so many priests in space? As Jim Clarke writes in Science Fiction and Ca...

Craig DiLouie, "Our War" (Orbit, 2019)

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In science fiction, “near future” usually refers to settings that are a few years to a few decades off. But Craig DiLouie’s Our War (Orbit, 20...

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trad...

H. G. Parry, "The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep" (Redhook, 2019)

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While all fiction writers can pull characters from their imaginations and commit them to the page, most readers can’t do what Charley Sutherland can...

John Birmingham, "The Cruel Stars" (Del Rey, 2019)

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After writing more than 30 books, including memoirs, military science fiction, alternate histories, and a book of writing advice, John Birmingham was ...

Annalee Newitz, "The Future of Another Timeline" (Tor, 2019)

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amid a wave of time travel books published this year, Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline(Tor, 2019) stands out for its focus on a woman...

Cadwell Turnbull, "The Lesson" (Blackstone Publishing, 2019)

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson (Blackstone Publishing, 2019), the U.S. Virgin Islands serve as Earth’s entry point for the Ynaa, beings from a f...

C.A. Fletcher, "A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World" (Orbit, 2019)

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

C.A. Fletcher’s new novel,  A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World(Orbit, 2019), takes place several generations after a pandemic has turned hum...

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, "This is How You Lose the Time War" (Gallery, 2019)

01 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For Blue and Red—arch enemies at the center of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s epistolary novella, This is How You Lose the Time War (Gallery, ...

David Wellington, "The Last Astronaut" (Orbit, 2019)

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In The Last Astronaut (Orbit, 2019), David Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zo...

Eliot Peper, "Breach" (47North, 2019)

04 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The massive corporation at the center of Eliot Peper’s Analog trilogy, which he completed last month with the publication of Breach (47North, 2019) ...

Vandana Singh, "Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories" (Small Beer Press, 2018)

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Vandana Singh has made a career of studying both hard science and the far corners of creativity. It’s no surprise then that Ambiguity Machines and O...

Audrey Schulman, "Theory of Bastards" (Europa Editions, 2018)

06 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Audrey Schulman’s Theory of Bastards (Europa Editions, 2018) uses a scientist’s relationship with bonobos—and her struggle to keep them alive fo...

Caitlin Starling, "The Luminous Dead" (Harper Voyager, 2019)

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Caitlin Starling’s debut The Luminous Dead (Harper Voyager, 2019) takes readers along with her young protagonist, Gyre Price, to a place few would v...

Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

13 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 2012 George Lucas shocked the entertainment world by selling the Star Wars franchise, along with Lucasfilm, to Disney. This is the story of how, ov...

Meg Elison, "The Book of Flora" (47North, 2019)

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora (47North, 2019) trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse. The first installment, the P...

Charlie Jane Anders on Space Colonization, Permanent Midnight, and Nuclear War

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night (Tor Books, 2019) is a coming of age story about Sophie, a young woman trying to forge her...

Tade Thompson, "The Rosewater Insurrection" (Orbit, 2019)

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tade Thompson’s The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit, 2019) takes us deep into the heart of an alien invasion that divides humans among those who welco...

Mike Chen, "Here and Now and Then" (MIRA, 2019)

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Chen’s debut novel Here and Now and Then (MIRA, 2019) is a portrait of patience. The main character, Kin Stewart, waits 18 years for his employ...

James Rollins, "Crucible" (William Morrow, 2019)

18 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

James Rollins’ books are usually categorized as thrillers, but most of them could easily be labeled science fiction. An instant bestseller, his late...

Tom Sweterlitsch, "The Gone World" (G.P. Putnam Son's, 2018)

30 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World (G.P. Putnam Son's, 2018) tells the story of Navy investigator Shannon Moss, who travels to the future to solve pr...

Catherynne M. Valente, "Space Opera" (Saga Press, 2018)

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Eurovision Song Contest has launched careers (think ABBA and Celine Dion), inspired outrageous costumes, and generated spinoffs. The campy competi...

Peng Shepherd, "The Book of M" (William Morrow, 2018)

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The pandemic in Peng Shepherd’s debut novel, The Book of M, starts with magic—the disappearance of a man’s shadow. The occurrence, broadcast wor...

Bina Shah, "Before She Sleeps" (Delphinium Books, 2018)

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps (Delphinium Books, 2018) is set in a near-future Pakistan where a repressive patriarchy requires women to take multipl...

Alec Nevala-Lee, "Astounding" (Dey Street Books, 2018)

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alec Nevala-Lee’s Astounding is the first comprehensive biography of John W. Campbell, who, as a writer and magazine editor, wielded enormous influe...

Steven Shaviro, “Discognition” (Repeater Books, 2016)

20 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Shaviro’s book Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016) opens with a series of questions: What is consciousness? How does subjective experience oc...

Eliot Peper, “Borderless” (47North)

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It seems clear that our dependence on the internet will only grow in coming years, offering untold convenience. But how much control will we have to s...

John Crowley, “Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr” (Saga Press, 2017)

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (Saga Press, 2017), John Crowley provides an account of human history through the eyes of a crow. The story take...

Wade Roush, ed., “Twelve Tomorrows” (MIT Press, 2018)

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Science fiction is, at its core, about tomorrow—exploring through stories what the universe may look like one or 10 or a million years in the future...

Karin Tidbeck, “Amatka” (Vintage, 2017)

04 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In Karin Tidbeck‘s Amatka (Vintage, 2017), words weave—and have the potential to shred—the fabric of reality. Amatka was shortlisted...

Rebecca Roanhorse, “Trail of Lightning” (Saga Press, 2018)

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In Trail of Lightning (Saga Press, 2018), the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Rebecca Roanhorse draws on Navajo culture and history to tell a gri...

Rivers Solomon, “An Unkindness of Ghosts” (Akashic Books, 2017)

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Humans might one day escape Earth, but escaping our biases may prove much harder. That’s one of the lessons from Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness o...

K.R. Richardson, “Blood Orbit,” (Pyr, 2018)

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For Inspector J.P. Dillal, the main protagonist in K. R. Richardson’s Blood Orbit (Pyr, 2018), the expression “I’ve got a lot on my mind” take...

Martha Wells, “Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries” (Tor, 2018)

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The “artificial” in artificial intelligence is easy to understand. But the meaning of “intelligence” is harder to define. How smart can an A.I...

Sam J. Miller, “Blackfish City” (Ecco, 2018)

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sam J. Miller loves cities. He lives in one, has a day job dedicated to making urban life more humane and fair, and has set his new novel, Blackfish C...

Daryl Gregory, “Spoonbenders” (Knopf, 2017)

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If Tolstoy had written Spoonbenders (Knopf, 2017), he might have started it: “All happy families are alike; each family of psychics is unhappy in it...

Maggie Shen King, “An Excess Male” (Harper Voyager, 2017)

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Maggie Shen King’s An Excess Male (Harper Voyager, 2017) is a work of science fiction inspired by a real-world dystopia: a country with tens of mil...

Fonda Lee, “Jade City” (Orbit, 2017)

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jade City combines what its author, Fonda Lee, calls the 3 Ms: mafia, magic and martial arts. Lee’s talent for depicting complex characters struggl...

Douglas Lain, “Bash Bash Revolution” (Night Shade Books, 2018)

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The technological “singularity” is a popular topic among futurists, transhumanists, philosophers, and, of course, science fiction writers. The ter...

Annalee Newitz, “Autonomous” (Tor, 2017)

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Chen is a drug pirate, illegally fabricating patented pharmaceuticals in an underground lab. But when she discovers a deadly flaw in Big Pharma’...

E.J. Swift, “Paris Adrift” (Solaris, 2018)

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Paris has a way of resisting history, absorbing change gradually instead of being transformed by it. The same can be said of Hallie, the protagonist o...

Mur Lafferty, “Six Wakes” (Orbit, 2017)

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Wolf interviews Mur Lafferty about Six Wakes (Orbit, 2017), her novel about murdered clones that received nods for this year’s Philip K. Dick an...

Tim Pratt, “The Wrong Stars” (Angry Robot, 2017)

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Wolf interviews Tim Pratt about his Philip K. Dick Award-nominated space opera The Wrong Stars. Pratt is the author of over 20 novels, picking up...

Meg Elison, “The Book of Etta” (47North, 2017)

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Born into a world where men vastly outnumber women, Etta is expected to choose between two roles: mother or midwife. And yet the protagonist of Meg E...

Robert J. Sawyer, “Quantum Night” (Ace, 2016)

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Rob Wolf interviews Robert J. Sawyer, the author of 23 novels, about his most recent book, Quantum Night (Ace, 2016). Sawyer is cons...

Nick Montfort, “The Future” (MIT, 2017)

29 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Popular culture provides many visions of the future. From The Jetsons to Futurama, Black Mirror to Minority Report, Western culture has predicted a fu...

Omar El Akkad, “American War” (Knopf, 2017)

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Set 50-plus years in the future, Omar El Akkad‘s debut novel American War (Knopf, 2017) has been widely praised, becoming one of those rare books wi...

David Walton, “The Genius Plague” (Pyr, 2017)

08 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone knows that wild mushrooms can be dangerous, but David Walton in his new novel The Genius Plague (Pyr, 2017) raises the dangers to a new plane...

Becky Chambers, “A Closed and Common Orbit” (Harper Voyager, 2017)

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Wolf interviews Becky Chambers, author of the Wayfarer series. The first book, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Harper Voyager, 2016), was o...