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Australia's megastar young adult author Garth Nix excites the imaginations of adults as well as young readers, with…

Alif the Unseen is the debut prose novel by G. Willow Wilson, author of the critically-acclaimed graphic novels Cairo…

Sir Terry Pratchett first came up with the idea of the Long Earth multiverse back in 1986. He set it aside to focus…

Railsea, the new young adult novel by China Miéville, is quite literary but playful — with vast molehills of…

Even big time SF authors can't resist doing fanfic. And why not? Our favorite writers are fans just like us. John…

Yearning for the sort of cutting-edge dystopian future we were promised way back in the 1980s? Simon Morden's Equati…

These days in Speculative Fiction it's all about the Fantasy; Urban, Epic, or Weird. What happened to all the…

Just in time for Passover, Tachyon Publications presents The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. This slim and silly…

This past Sunday, Kage Baker lost her year-long battle with cancer. We science-fiction readers have lost a brilliant…

Forthcoming urban fantasy Unleashed (Ace) by John Levitt is the sequel to Dog Days and New Tricks. It follows the…

Tachyon Publications has a new anthology out called The Secret History of Science Fiction. It centers around a…

The brilliant and prolific Jay Lake returns to the City Imperishable, with a Madness of Flowers. This is a decadent,…

Have we gone multiverse crazy? Iain Banks' latest novel, Transition, is just the latest of a long line of…

The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction has been at the forefront of genre short fiction for sixty years. And…

In anticipation of that upcoming movie with that guy who was in Weird Science, Night Shade Books presents The…

Goggles, gaslights and gears, oh my! Steampunk is a steadily growing subgenre of speculative fiction. We review four…

Joe R. and Keith Lansdale present another collection of stories recalling those hard-boiled cheap thrills from the…

The last 25 years has seen a huge swell of interest by English-speaking audiences in manga, partly thanks to Viz…

Bar None by Tim Lebbon (Night Shade Press, 2009) is a dark post-apocalyptic fantasy with a creepy numinous beauty…

Jay Lake's sixth novel, Green , is an inventive fantasy of exotic cities, weird gods, conspiracies, stabbings, and…