Angry Robot Books, which is owned by Osprey Publishing Group, has just announced that their YA imprint, Strange…
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Every now and then I encounter a book that utterly thrills me, and Karl Schroeder's new novel Lockstep is one of…
The Goblin Emperor is a fantasy novel worth reading, though it's hard to describe. It's a story of court intrigue,…
Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel, is a swirling writhing cross section of life in Lagos, Nigeria as aliens make…
Alternate histories – with their roads not taken and mix of real and supposition – can be dreams come true for…
Very soon, in the never ending debate about whether or not info dumps can be compelling, someone will point out that…
A Highly Unlikely Scenario, by Rachel Cantor, takes place in a world where computer programs walk among us,…
Three young-adult novels that made a splash in 2012 are back for another helping. But now that so many YA books…
I am not a vampire person. It’s not that I don’t get the allure of the vampire story — I’ve just always found the…
Jon Skovron’s newest YA novel, Man Made Boy, follows his protagonist on a journey of self-discovery across America.…
Kim Stanley Robinson is known for his meticulous worldbuilding. So when Robinson heads to neolithic Europe for his…
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that every interstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of…
It’s not every author who could put together an entire book of Hugo and Nebula award-winning short stories, but…
Max Barry’s 2003 novel Jennifer Government was a spectacular, and terrifyingly possible, near-future dystopia of…
Fans of Neil Gaiman's dark, mythology-soaked fantasy will rush out to buy his first adult book in years, The Ocean…
The 5th Wave may be the summer’s most buzzed about YA book — but it really does deserve a lot of praise. Rick…
The Urwald could be the dark forest of any fairytale — provided that dark forest is filled with ogres, murderous…
Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince takes place in Palmeres Tres, a far-future Brazilian city ruled by women,…
A secret rural community built around a government laboratory, an impossible murder of a town leader, and a newly…
There are some books that make you want to pass out copies to strangers, just to have someone to talk to them about.…