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

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

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

When second novels prove to be second nature.

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

From steampunk animal fables to crime in the New Frontier.

Five works of fantastika you might have missed this year.

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

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

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

The ultimate identity theft.

An alien artifact transforms a near-future earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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