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 ...

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.

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 ...

Here’s a glimpse of non-fiction as well as fiction titles that piqued our readers’ interest all month Matthew Reynolds’s book ...

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 ...