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

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.

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.

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.

A slyly potent thriller that cocks an eyebrow at our trend-maddened culture.

A new translation of a little-known classic helps remind us of Jules Verne's genius.

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