There are lots of great science fiction book series out there, many which bear some similarity to Dune. Whether you've read ...

By Jennifer Harlan With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic ... A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises.

This year hasn’t been a great one for the environment, so a book about the long history of environmental damage may be a hard sell. However, this isn’t just a litany of woe. It unpicks the ...

such as Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (my own high school favorite book series), or even the short stories from one of the most famous science fiction ...

What we find at the intersection of science fact and science fiction, from utopian metropolises to visitors from other worlds. By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Mack DeGeurin By Andrew Paul By ...

Post-apocalyptic societies, alien invasions, robots and environmental catastrophes have all played out in this genre which is still popular ... science fiction in the 1990s. The first book in ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional treats on offer ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.