Mapping reality
Peng Shepherd’s novel The Cartographers is a brilliant work of fantasy
Reviews
The pasts we bury
Edward Ashton's Mickey7 poses some hard questions about our futures in space
Differing outcomes
Annalee Newitz's The Future of Another Timeline and Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Reviewed
Wartime complexities
Mike Chen’s Star Wars: Brotherhood is a story that meaningfully grows the franchise
New approaches to rewilding the world
Lev Grossman's The Golden Swift is a delightful climate-focused book for younger readers
Karen Traviss’ Wess’Har Wars series is an essential environmental SF saga
The series is an engrossing dive into colonization, environmentalism, and destruction
Moral ambiguities
How does a good person stray from the path?
Kaiju sugar rush
John Scalzi's latest is a monster-filled blockbuster of a novel
T.L. Huchu's Library of the Dead introduces us to a grim, magical Edinburgh
A slick urban fantasy mystery
Nnedi Okorafor's Noor is a vivid work of Africanfuturism cyberpunk
A science fiction novel that feels eminently true to the nature of the contradictions of the real world