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New Books in Science Fiction

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New Books in Science Fiction

Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7: A Novel" (Graywolf Press 2026)

Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7" (Graywolf Press 2026)

Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reaktion, 2025)

E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)

In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly

Wu Jianren, "New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Maria Dadouch, "I Want Golden Eyes" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation

Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)

154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson

Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Christy Climenhage, "The Midnight Project" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

Lindsay Wong, "Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories" (Penguin, 2023)

The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political

Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)

Badiucao and Mellissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)

Ben Berman Ghan, "The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)

Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)

Suzy Krause, "I Think We've Been Here Before" (Radiant Press, 2024)

Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024)

Emily A. Weedon, "Autokrator" (Cormorant Books, 2024)

Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Benjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

CK Westbrook, "The Aftermath" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2024)

Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)

David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)

Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

Graham McNeill, "Horus Heresy - False Gods" (Games Workshop, 2014)

Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)

Wole Talabi, "Convergence Problems" (Astra Publishing House, 2024)

Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television

Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)

Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)

Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)

Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)

Stefano Gualeni, "The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction" (Routledge, 2023)

Waubgeshig Rice, "Moon of the Turning Leaves" (William Morrow, 2023)

Jarret Keene, "Hammer of the Dogs" (U Nevada Press, 2023)

Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

Reese Hogan, "My Heart Is Human" (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2023)

Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)

What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

A Better Way to Buy Books

Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])

Em X. Liu, "The Death I Gave Him" (Solaris, 2023)

Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond

Nick Harkaway, "Titanium Noir" (Knopf, 2023)

Arin Greenwood, "Your Robot Dog Will Die" (Soho, 2019)

Karen Lord, "The Blue, Beautiful World" (Del Rey, 2023)

CK Westbrook, "The Shooting" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)

Scott Russell Duncan, "El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl" (2022)

Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology

Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)

Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)

Emma Mieko Candon, "The Archive Undying" (Tordotcom, 2023)

Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea" (MCD, 2022)

Gareth L. Powell, "Descendant Machine" (Titan Books, 2023)

Brad Kelly, "House of Sleep" (2021)

Leslye Penelope, "The Monsters We Defy" (Redhook, 2022)

Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)

Lavanya Lakshminarayan, "The Ten Percent Thief" (Solaris, 2023)

Denise Crittendon, "Where it Rains in Color" (Angry Robot, 2022)

Annalee Newitz, "The Terraformers" (Tor Books, 2023)

Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson

Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)

On H. G. Well's "The Time Machine"

Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Alastair Reynolds, "Eversion" (Orbit, 2022)

Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat Redux

Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)