This Halloween, step into stories where science meets terror, where contagions kill, landscapes devour explorers, and ...

From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikovsky book, there’s lots to ...

Whether you’re looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here. By The New York Times Books Staff The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics ...

A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into ...

Heist stories are all the rage in science fiction and fantasy books of late -- and we've rounded up ten of the best of them here.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." At its core, science fiction is a conceit. It’s a thought experiment beginning with a “what if X” or an ...

The National Book Award-winning author’s new “cozy science fiction” novel takes place in the far future and pivots on the personhood of AI.

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

This has been a great year for escapes: Speculative-fiction writers have leaned hard into the fantastic and the diverting, offering stories that posited everything from “methgicians” to AIs hard at ...