One of science fiction’s preeminent preoccupations, the settlement, and eventual terraforming, of Mars has been a part of the futurist outlook since Ray Bradbury’s novel on the idea in the 1950s.

The world of fantasy books has been dominated lately by romance-fantasy hybrids and cozy coming-of-age stories disguised as adult fiction. So Lev Grossman’s “The Bright Sword” stands out as ...

The best new science fiction books of July 2024. The Matrix star Keanu Reeves’s debut sci-fi novel is out this month, written in collaboration with old hand China Miéville, ...

Amal El-Mohtar is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of “This Is How You Lose the Time War.” She is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the award-winning author of many books of science fiction and fantasy, including The Children of Time, ...

Best summer books of 2025: Science fiction on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save James Lovegrove. Published June 19 2025. Jump to comments section Print this page. Unlock the Editor’s Digest ...

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the map of speculative fiction. But this year did have a ...