The Human Division

A serialized war of worlds packs the analogous power of militaristic SF old and new.

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Empty Space

Another artful experiment from a genre-bending icon of science fiction.

 

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London Falling

Haunted London is home to a faceoff between psychic detectives and a ghastly killer.

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Sophomore Honor Roll

When second novels prove to be second nature.

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The Fractal Prince

A postmodern SF adventure melds twelfth-century folktales with twenty-first-century science.

 

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This Earth and Others: Four Visions in Comics

From steampunk animal fables to crime in the New Frontier.

 

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Almost Invisible Worlds

Five works of fantastika you might have missed this year.

 

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The Hydrogen Sonata

Seeking to define the New Space Opera through the work of one of its seminal practioners.

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American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s

A single decade spawned many of the genre's acknowledged masterpieces.

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Dual Singularity

In two new books, Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross explore a future near to hand, and one a little more distant.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The ultimate identity theft.

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Existence

An alien artifact transforms a near-future earth.

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Siren Songs: Five New Fantasies by Women

Adventuring from a musically spellbound Naples to the universe's reference desk.

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2312

A gloriously real, Solar-centric space opera that heralds the dawn of a new SF paradigm.

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Across the Universe: A Wrinkle in Time Revisited

Why Madeleine L'Engle's star-spanning vision found its destination in readers' hearts.

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Angelmaker

Secret passages, doomsday devices, and fiendish masterminds populate a comic thriller.

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Grand Schemes

Two new works of science fiction demonstrate the limitless potential of the Big Idea.

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Blueprints of the Afterlife

An absurdist vision of America's future is a new monument of "slipstream" fiction.

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Sampling the Multiverse: Three from 2011

From a busy year in reading, these works of imaginative daring stand out.

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Fight the System

Future dystopias are the settings for a growing number of stories for teens.

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The Children of the Sky

The long-awaited sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep explores a post-Singularity universe.

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Reamde

A cyber thriller disguises a morality play of epic scope and scale.

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The Magician King

The return of Quentin Coldwater, now High King of Fillory, but still a tormented kid from Brooklyn.

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The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown

Science fiction authors aid the war effort during WWII with fruits of their imaginations made real.

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Fuzzy Nation

The author of the celebrated Old Man's War gives a beloved science fiction series a fresh start.

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Walking to Hollywood

The British author makes a tragicomic odyssey through an imaginary L.A.

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New Masters of Story

Three new works of fantasy evoke a Golden Age of fictional invention.

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The Icebreaker

A  celebration of Russian satirist Vladimir Sorokin, a Swiftian writer whose work is steeped in the tropes of science fiction.

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Swamplandia!

A high-spirited tale of a gator-wrestling family and a young girl's quest, steeped in backwoods lore.

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The Universe Next Door

Brian Greene's audacious new book makes the case for the multiverse, in which everything that can happen, does.

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About the Columnist
Author of several acclaimed novels and story collections, including Fractal Paisleys, Little Doors, and Neutrino Drag, Paul Di Filippo was nominated for a Sturgeon Award, a Hugo Award, and a World Fantasy Award -- all in a single year. William Gibson has called his work "spooky, haunting, and hilarious." His reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Science Fiction Weekly, Asimov's Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.