A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller. What if the star of “The Matrix” worked with a sci-fi novelist ...
Hundreds of science fiction movies have been released over the decades, but only a few have left lasting legacies. From alien invasions to AI apocalypses, these are the greatest sci-fi films of all ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow.
I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the map of speculative fiction. But this year did have a ...
As pastiches go, it’s a cut above the rest, while remaining true to its pulp-fiction source material. The Great When by Alan Moore (Bloomsbury) The superstar comics writer turns his beady eye on ...