The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is a Hugo ...

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Our columnist takes a look at recent books by Sofia Samatar, Vajra Chandrasekera and Emet North. By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a ...

“He retains a sharp memory of the trap, last summer, his forefoot clamped and the utter terror, and of later waking, woozy, and the awful, human scent all over him, and the thing awkward around his ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

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A decades-long cultural phenomenon is revisited in the “The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the Century America” by science writer David Baron. He explores how a ...