Although science fiction imagines diverse, imaginative, and frightening futures, genre anthologies rarely achieve the brilliant range and diversity of voices of The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Edited by Lavie Tidhar, this labor of love... Read More

Six bold adventurers leave Earth behind forever in David Ebenbach’s droll science fiction novel "How to Mars". Of the many applicants for a one-way excursion to Mars, six are selected, both for their scientific acumen and for their... Read More

Antoine Volodine’s superb post-exotic novel "Solo Viola" imagines a society that’s one step removed from reality. With a narrative spiced up by absurdity and a dead serious message, this is a brisk, engrossing, and phantasmagorical... Read More

"Black Star" is a fast-moving, twisting futuristic thriller about a woman-versus-woman contest of survival. Harper, a prominent and dedicated scientist, is sent with a crew to a far-off planet, Eleos, to retrieve samples of a flower with... Read More

"The Book Glasses" is a science fiction novel in which a previously unlucky woman discovers the joys and dangers of knowledge. An extraordinary artifact changes a woman’s life, but also puts her in grave danger, in Arthur Bozikas’s... Read More

In the fantasy novel "Hall of Skulls", a young man works to save his true love and to achieve eternal wisdom. Jamie Eubanks’s intricate, inventive fantasy novel "Hall of Skulls" combines cosmic futurism with a timeless tale of love and... Read More

In the fun steampunk novellas of "Siege Chronicles", a trio of redeemable scamps has exciting adventures in a world embroiled in war. In Mark William Chase’s action-packed, six-part novel "Siege Chronicles", a mercenary group pursues... Read More

"The Site" is a mysterious science fiction novel in which investigators stumble on aliens and face deep ethical questions. In Carlos Valrand’s science fiction novel "The Site", a woman’s dreams of clandestine missions and alien... Read More