As pastiches go, it’s a cut above the rest, while remaining true to its pulp-fiction source material ... it’s an intensely and elaborately written book that’s also surprisingly funny.

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

Discover how sci-fi classics like 'Star Wars' and 'Dune' influence today's tech advancements, from holograms to space travel.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

In this book, a combo of fantasy and science fiction, a middle-school science teacher must help save the world in an interstellar adventure. My husband, a retired science teacher, and I both loved the ...

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

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 wealth of unforgettable books ...

This trilogy breathes new life into science fiction in the 1990s. The first book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (1993–1996), details the colonisation of Mars as an analogy to the ...