A punk rock teacher is embroiled in a major protest movement in Sim Kern’s involving speculative novel The Free People’s Village. Maddie is an English teacher. She has a crush on Red, who is trans and nonbinary. Red lives in the Lab,... Read More

Age, class, and lies affect a space-borne society in the science fiction graphic novel "Arca". Effie will turn eighteen soon, at which point she’ll stop serving the “citizens”—the rich aristocracy of a large spaceship called... Read More

Weaponized nostalgia endangers the world and forces a reckoning between old friends in Sin Blaché and Helen MacDonald’s novel "Prophet". An American-style diner, a bouquet of flowers, and a board game are among the objects that... Read More

The Engineer’s Apprentice is an exciting steampunk novel that blends science with magic to compelling effect. In J. R. Martin’s steampunk novel The Engineer’s Apprentice, an engineering protégé joins a skilled master for a... Read More

In the compelling science fiction novel "Runners", a tight-knit crew displays true camaraderie despite the dystopian leanings of their world. Set in a dystopian corporate world, Justin Hale’s science fiction novel "Runners" follows a... Read More

An interplanetary alliance is formed and a prophecy uncovered in "Khizara", a science fiction series opener with a hopeful future. In Drew Bankston’s series-opening science fiction novel "Khizara", an intergalactic archaeologist... Read More

A generation trades clicks for activism in "Girlfriend on Mars", Deborah Willis’s incisive satirization of Anthropocene dissonance. Once an Olympic hopeful, Amber is now in her thirties and dead-ending it in British Columbia. She loves... Read More

Set in space, "Deep Light" is a methodical science fiction novel in which a black hole experiment forces people to confront unspeakable horrors. In Dennis Martineau’s science fiction novel "Deep Light", a space station dedicated to the... Read More