For those of us who are not aliens who gain superpowers from Earth’s yellow sun, there are a limited number of options available when we need to travel somewhere far away. Short of someone inventing those cool portal things from Hyperion, it’s down to walking, riding on wheels or rails, or hopping on a plane. Even in a […]
Last year, Patrick Hemstreet’s The God Wave delivered a smart and grown-up sci-fi adventure with an outsized premise—what would happen if a group of ordinary people developed psychic powers?—delivered with a sense of realism. A handful scientists, artists, and others becomes as gods though a plausible scientific experiment, and experience the fallout after taking a […]
December is the perfect season for a binge, be it on food (it’s sweater weather), alcohol (family time ahoy!), or books and television (it’s cold outside!). Well, we can’t tell you what to eat or drink, but we relish telling you what books to read to scratch a particular itch. In that spirit, this holiday […]
It’s long been said there’s nothing new under the sun, and no one knows that better than writers. Even Shakespeare was drafting on the classics, after all, andeven in science fiction and fantasy—genres that trade in the deliriously impossible—most new books involve ideas we’ve all seen before. The trick is dealing with those ideas in fresh, […]
Last week, we revealed the 42 sci-fi and fantasy books we can’t wait to read in 2016. Now, we’re giving the editors and publishers their say. We reached out to over a dozen SF/F imprints and asked them what books they can’t wait to show you in the new year. Get ready to update your wish list […]