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 ...

The early science fiction work of William Gibson coined a term that would soon enter the vernacular, cyberspace. That was a setting of his first novel "Neuromancer" in 1984. Gibson has a talent for ...

Whether it’s black orbs swallowing people in downtown Seoul, murder on Mars or malevolent pigs, August has got science fiction fans covered. There are new titles from big names such as James S. A.

There’s been an explosive renaissance in science fiction and fantasy TV and film programming for quite some time now. Yet, there’s still room for more. The complex nature of most science fiction and ...

Since his first-ever glimpse of the Star Destroyer gliding across the movie screen in the 1977 film, “Star Wars: A New Hope,” ...

Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel is a strange novel that smashes together some of the best elements of science fiction and crime to deliver a story in which time is broken — and some crucial events that ...

The novel “Observer” plays off the idea that acts of observation give rise to the reality we observe. (Adobe Stock / Thapana Studio) Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create ...

H. G. Wells certainly belongs in the pantheon of great science fiction writers. However, Charles Johnson’s review of “The Young H. G. Wells” (Dec. 12) goes too far in crediting him, with Jules Verne ...

The 21st century is starting to feel a bit like a sci-fi novel with driverless taxis roaming around San Francisco, generative ...