What with bookstore choice paralysis and the background noise of marketing hype, it’s inevitable that many wonderful novels are overlooked each year. In SF/F, it’s sometimes because the most interesting books don’t fit neatly into a particular marketing categories. At the risk of increasing your anxiety and terror over your pile of unread books, here are […]
Robert Charles Wilson is at it again. The award-winning author of The Chronoliths and Spin turns his gaze toward the darker side of social media in The Affinities, skirting the edge of science fiction with a near-future tale of loyalty, acceptance, perspective, and internal societal struggles. Taking the concept of self-selecting social groups to an unsettling extreme, he shines a […]
A new novel from a multi-award winner, continuations of two SF epics, and the revival of an under-appreciated urban fantasy series are among this week’s most exciting new books.