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The Dark Forest. By Cixin Liu. Tr. by Joel Martinsen. Aug. 2015. 512p. Tor, $25.99 (9780765377081); e-book (9781466853430). In 2014, Chinese star author Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem came [...]

Redzone. By William C. Dietz. July 2015. 304p. Ace, paper, $7.99 (9780425273340). A catastrophic bioterrorist attack has devastated the population with a dangerous mutagen, radically altering the planet, and the [...]

Bell Weather. By Dennis Mahoney. Aug. 2015. 382p. Holt, $28 (9781627792677). If the core of fantasy is about creating an ideal world in which a reader can explore and adventure [...]

Bombs Away: The Hot War. By Harry Turtledove. July 2015. 448p. Del Rey, $28 (9780553390704). Turtledove is an undisputed centerpiece of the alternate-history genre, and now, to his already grand [...]

The Hollow Queen. By Elizabeth Haydon. June 2015. 368p. Tor, $25.99 (9780765305671); e-book (9781429942973). The eighth book in Haydon's Symphony of Ages series pits the Cymrian Alliance against the inexorable [...]

From a Drood to a Kill. By Simon R. Green. June 2015.400p. Roc, $26.95 (9780451414335). Drood might not sound like an inspiring family name, until you learn the title represents [...]

The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth. Ed. by S. M. Stirling. June 2015.640p. Roc, $27.95 (9780451467560). Editor Stirling concedes in this new short story anthology that fictional world building [...]

Beyond Redemption. By Michael A. Fletcher. June 2015. 512p. Harper/Voyager, paper, $15.99 (9780062387035): e-book (9780062387059). A general guideline in high fantasy is the need for a sympathetic and ignorant main [...]

Briar Queen. By Katherine Harbour. June 2015. 368p. Harper/Voyager, paper, $12.99 (9780062286765); e-book (9780062286772). Paranormal romance is a genre equipped to attract a significant chunk of readers looking for an [...]

Seveneves. By Neal Stephenson. May 2015. 880p. Morrow, $35 (9780062190376). Stephenson's new novel begins with the moon exploding. But if you're looking for B-movie-style sf schlock, that is where the [...]

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread. By Chuck Palahniuk. May 2015. 336p. Doubleday, $26.95 (9780385538053). Given that Fight Club author Palahniuk can be a lot to handle when he's [...]

The Invasion of the Tearling. By Erika Johansen. June 2015. 528p. Harper, $24.99 (978006229030). Johansen has a cake and she wants to eat it, too. The second book of her [...]

Throne of Darkness. By Douglas Nicholas. Mar. 2015.320p. Atria/Emily Bestler, paper, $15 (9781476755984); e-book (9781476756004). The homogeneous Northern European--style settings of fantasy tales can quickly become a bore for avid [...]

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances. By Neil Gaiman. 2015.352p. Morrow, $26.99 (9780062379184). Gaiman here breaks his own rule of anthology structure. The 24 entries are a 'willy-nilly hodgepodge' of [...]

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The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows. Ed. by Marjorie Sandor. Feb. 2015. 576p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $19.99 (9781250041715); e-book (9781466838680). When something familiar happens in an unfamiliar context, or [...]

King of the Cracksmen. By Dennis O'Flaherty. Jan. 2015.336p. Night Shade, paper, $15.99 (9781597805513). Debut novelist O'Flaherty has cranked his engines to full power for his emergence on the sci-fi/fantasy [...]

Shadow. By Will Elliott. Feb. 2015.400p. Tor, $25.99 (9780765331892); paper (9781429943123). Elliott may be the most unique writer in today's sf/fantasy landscape. Reading Shadow, the second part of Elliott's Pendulum [...]

Righteous Fury. By Markus Heitz. Tr. by Sheelagh Alabaster. Feb. 2015.416p. Ouercus, $24.99 (9781623658830); e-book (9781623658847). A Tolkienesque fantasy adventure novel needs a solid villain for the readers to loathe, [...]

Karen Memory. By Elizabeth Bear. Feb. 2015.352p. Tor, $25.99 (9780765375247). If contemporary Seattle is an apt setting for cyberpunk thrillers, it stands to reason that nineteenth-century Seattle should serve just [...]

Vostok. By Steve Alten. Feb. 2015.408p. Next Century/Rebel, $24.95 (9781629030760). It's been a while since society has thought of Antarctica as a frontier of exploration, but don't tell that to [...]

The King's Deryni. By Katherine Kurtz. Dec. 2014. 560p. Ace, $26.95 (9780425276686). If readers were to catch a glance of Kurtz's Deryni series out of the corner of their eyes, [...]

Journey through the Mirror. By T. R. Williams. Jan. 2015.464p. Atria, paper, $16 (9781476713410); e-book (9781476713427). It's a nice bit of respite to find a postapocalyptic novel that, instead of [...]

Half-Resurrection Blues. By Daniel Jose Older. Jan. 2015.336p. Roc, paper, $7.99 (9780425275986). Readers have probably read about and watched plenty of zombies mindlessly devouring the living, but probably no one [...]

The Autumn Republic. By Brian McClellan. Feb. 2015. 592p. Orbit, $26 (9780316219129). When you hear the term, powder mage, it's probably hard to conjure the image of a terrifying sorcerer [...]

Fish Tails. By Sheri S. Tepper. 2014. 720p. Harper/Voyager, $32.99 (9780062304582). Tepper has been writing sf for more than 30 years. The ambitious premise of her latest novel is to […]

The Three-Body Problem. By Cixin Liu. Tr. by Ken Liu. Nov. 2014.336p. Tor, $25.99 (9780765377067); e-book (9781466853447). This novel is a rare treat in several ways. First, it is translated […]

Willful Child. By Steven Erikson. Nov. 2014. 304p. Tor, $24.99 (9780765374899); e-book (9781466843615). This reviewer likes to imagine that after fantasy author Erikson finished his impressive and popular Malazan Book [...]

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent. By Jay Bonansinga. Oct. 2014. 288p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $25.99 (9781250057174); e-book (9781466860773). The Walking Dead series, in all its media forms, is like […]

Best New Horror, v.25. Ed. by Stephen Jones. Nov. 2014. 608p. Skyhorse/Herman Graf, paper, $15.95 (9781628738186). This twenty-fifth year of gathering stories from the best English-language horror writers has come […]

Another One Bites the Dust. By Chris Marie Green. Nov. 2014. 416p. Roc, paper, $7.99 (9780451417008). Green's Jensen Murphy mystery series is a trope quilting project. Starting with Only the […]

Dreamer's Pool By Juliet Marillier. Nov. 2014. 448p. Roc, $26.95 (9780451466990). Fantasy novels have a spacious bag full of tricks for appealing to a wide variety of readers, and veteran [...]

Upgraded. Ed. by Neil Clarke. Oct. 2014. 368p. Wyrm, paper, $16.95 (9781890464301). In 2012, Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke became a cyborg after a near-fatal heart attack prompted the installation […]

Death by Paradox. By R. M. Robinson. Oct. 2014.320p. Firefall, $29.95 (9781939434142). A novel spanning multiple decades of history and family generations is likely called an ambitious epic, but then [...]