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The Best Philosophical Science Fiction Books
A lot of philosophy seems to boil down to: “So, this life thing. What are we supposed to do with this? And crap, there’s all these other people; that makes it even more complicated! Let’s drink.” The...
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The Best Parallel Worlds Science Fiction Books
With the recent onslaught of multiverse superhero movies out there, I’m feeling a little multiversed-out, and it takes something special for me to get back into it. These books all fit the bill. 15...
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners of the 21st Century
The annual Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. These are the winners from the year 2000 on, and it’s a...
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Review: Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor
Heaven’s River is the fourth book of the excellent Bobiverse series, and instead of cruising along well-worn narrative paths, author Dennis E. Taylor expands his universe and characters in unexpected...
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The Best Science Fiction Books with Gas Giants
It is not always easy to get AI image generators to do what you want. I ended up with “astronauts insideJupiter’s Great Red Spot.” Gas giants are wonderfully weird, mysterious, and incredibly...
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The Best Dark Science Fiction Books
Calling a book “dark” can mean many things, and the books on this list mean most of them. There’s horror, black humor, creepy thrillers, surreal WTF, genre-bending with fantasy, and more. 15 The...
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Review: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
In the near-future world of Venomous Lumpsucker, everything has continued to get worse, to the point where a corporation can make a species extinct as long as they pay enough extinction credits. The...
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The Best Silkpunk Books
Check out the fingers on that AI hand. Not the proper way to hold a sword. There are a couple of science fiction books in this list, but right now, most silkpunk stories are fantasy. Here be dragons....
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Review: The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
The Tusks of Extinction is a short novellette/novelito (smaller than a novella) where mammoths have been resurrected and are roaming the Russian plains. It’s surreal, clever, original, and shot through...
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Review: Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia by Jason Pargin
Author Jason Pargin has made a career out of hilarious and fast-moving books with surprisingly intelligent and thoughtful things to say, despite all the jokes and blood. His latest, Zoey Is Too Drunk...
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