Bookshelf; The Best Books of 2022: Science Fiction and Fantasy Liz Braswell picks her top five from the year in speculative fiction.

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.

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

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.

Science fiction has always had a habit of creating content ahead of its time. Books, movies, and shows have long created ...

In his free time, he writes speculative fiction books and co-hosts the Rabbit Hole of Research podcast. André Westhelle “From the public point of view, I think science fiction is really important, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...