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The Biggest Question in Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Series or Standalone?

It’s the question that defines us as readers of science fiction and fantasy: when you pick up a new book, do you prefer a story that stands alone, or one that is part of a series? There’s no easy answer—and no right or wrong one, either. That’s why we asked ...

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Walking the Line: Peter Milligan, Leandro Fernández, and The Discipline

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Walking the Line: Peter Milligan, Leandro Fernández, and The Discipline

For Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernández, sex isn’t entirely the point, though there is a fair bit of it: their new book from Image Comics, The...

Exclusive Reveal: See the Book Trailer for the Complete Three-Body Trilogy by Cixin Liu

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Exclusive Reveal: See the Book Trailer for the Complete Three-Body Trilogy by Cixin Liu

Over the past two years, we’ve told you again and again (and again) why Chinese author Cixin Liu’s Three-Body Trilogy (The Three-Body Problem,...

Why I Created Jack Sparks, the Loathsome Liar, by Jason Arnopp

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Why I Created Jack Sparks, the Loathsome Liar, by Jason Arnopp

Jack Sparks, the eponymous narrator of The Last Days of Jack Sparks (a cracking read, and one of our favorite books of September). is a lot of...

The Biggest Question in Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Series or Standalone?

the great debate

The Biggest Question in Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Series or Standalone?

It’s the question that defines us as readers of science fiction and fantasy: when you pick up a new book, do you prefer a story that stands alone, or...

Death’s End Concludes a Hard Sci-Fi Magnus Opus of Unparalleled Scope

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Death’s End Concludes a Hard Sci-Fi Magnus Opus of Unparalleled Scope

Writing about books tends to superlatives. You’ve read them countless times; the books we love are “breathtaking,”...

In The Queen of Blood, the Trees Really Do Want to Kill You

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In The Queen of Blood, the Trees Really Do Want to Kill You

“It’s like Hogwarts, but with trees! And the trees want to kill you!” Or so goes my elevator pitch for Sarah Beth Durst’s The Queen of Blood, the...

Read “The House of the Dead,” an Original Short Story in the Supernatural Alt-Victorian World of Mark Latham’s The Lazarus Gate and The Iscariot Sanction

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Read “The House of the Dead,” an Original Short Story in the Supernatural Alt-Victorian World of Mark Latham’s The Lazarus Gate and The Iscariot Sanction

Mark Latham’s two novels of the Apollonian Case Files, The Lazarus Gate and The Iscariot Sanction, take place in an alternate Victorian Age in which...

The Family Plot Is a Seriously Spine-Tingling Haunted House Tale

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The Family Plot Is a Seriously Spine-Tingling Haunted House Tale

I hail from the deep South, where crickets and frogs sing the soundtrack of the night, and oak trees blanketed in Spanish moss form vaulted ceilings over...

This Week’s New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books: Death’s End, Grossman’s Beginning, and Senior Citizens in Space

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This Week’s New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books: Death’s End, Grossman’s Beginning, and Senior Citizens in Space

Big books for every type of SFF reader this week, from the final volume of Cixin Liu’s gargantuan, mind-bending sci-fi trilogy to a new Kate Daniels...

6 Novels About Freaky Cults

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6 Novels About Freaky Cults

Brian Evenson is an award-winning author of science fiction and horror whose new novella The Warren, out tomorrow from Tor.com Publishing, does a pretty...

A Shattered Empire Made Me Believe in Epic Fantasy Again

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A Shattered Empire Made Me Believe in Epic Fantasy Again

Is Mitchell Hogan Santa Claus? I’m starting to think he might be, and not just because I’ve never seen them in the same room: A Shattered...

Check Out 7 More of Our Favorite Magical Libraries

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Check Out 7 More of Our Favorite Magical Libraries

Speaking in purely mercenary terms, writing about magical libraries is a good bet: readers are readers, which means they likely have many happy memories...