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Inside Science Fiction Studies

Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7: A Novel" (Graywolf Press 2026)

Deb Olin Unferth, "Earth 7" (Graywolf Press 2026)

Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reaktion, 2025)

E. and H. Heron, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective" (MIT Press, 2026)

In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Emergence and The Real Monsters

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: In Space, No One… and The Fly

Wu Jianren, "New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Maria Dadouch, "I Want Golden Eyes" (U Texas Press, 2025)

Alien: Earth Episode Analysis: Metamorphosis and Observation

Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)

154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson

Gabriel Ertsgaard, "A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace: Crafting Nonviolent Heroism" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Christy Climenhage, "The Midnight Project" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

Lindsay Wong, "Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories" (Penguin, 2023)

The Politics of Andor (Season 2, Episodes 10-12): Freedom and Order

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 7-9): Truth and Discipline

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 4-6): Too Much Information

The Politics of Andor (Season 2 Episodes 1-3): The Personal is Political

Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)

Badiucao and Mellissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)

Ben Berman Ghan, "The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024)

Anna Moschovakis, "An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" (Soft Skull, 2024)

Suzy Krause, "I Think We've Been Here Before" (Radiant Press, 2024)

Peter Darbyshire, "The Mona Lisa Sacrifice" (Poplar Press, 2024)

Emily A. Weedon, "Autokrator" (Cormorant Books, 2024)

Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Benjamin Resnick, "Next Stop" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)

CK Westbrook, "The Aftermath" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2024)

Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)

David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier" (Vernon Press, 2023)

Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)

Graham McNeill, "Horus Heresy - False Gods" (Games Workshop, 2014)

Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, "Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away" (Vernon Press, 2023)

Wole Talabi, "Convergence Problems" (Astra Publishing House, 2024)

Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television

Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024)

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)

Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024)

Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)

Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)

Stefano Gualeni, "The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction" (Routledge, 2023)

Waubgeshig Rice, "Moon of the Turning Leaves" (William Morrow, 2023)

Jarret Keene, "Hammer of the Dogs" (U Nevada Press, 2023)

Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

Reese Hogan, "My Heart Is Human" (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2023)

Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)

What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington

Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

A Better Way to Buy Books

Em X. Liu, "The Death I Gave Him" (Solaris, 2023)

Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])

Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond

Nick Harkaway, "Titanium Noir" (Knopf, 2023)

Arin Greenwood, "Your Robot Dog Will Die" (Soho, 2019)

Karen Lord, "The Blue, Beautiful World" (Del Rey, 2023)

CK Westbrook, "The Shooting" (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022)

Scott Russell Duncan, "El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl" (2022)

Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)

Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology

Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)

Emma Mieko Candon, "The Archive Undying" (Tordotcom, 2023)

Ray Nayler, "The Mountain in the Sea" (MCD, 2022)

Gareth L. Powell, "Descendant Machine" (Titan Books, 2023)

Brad Kelly, "House of Sleep" (2021)

Leslye Penelope, "The Monsters We Defy" (Redhook, 2022)

Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)

Lavanya Lakshminarayan, "The Ten Percent Thief" (Solaris, 2023)

Denise Crittendon, "Where it Rains in Color" (Angry Robot, 2022)

Annalee Newitz, "The Terraformers" (Tor Books, 2023)

Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson

Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)

On H. G. Well's "The Time Machine"

Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Alastair Reynolds, "Eversion" (Orbit, 2022)

Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat Redux

Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)

Victor Manibo, "The Sleepless" (Erewhon, 2022)

89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)

Joma West, "Face" (Tordotcom, 2022)

Megan Giddings, "The Women Could Fly" (Amistad, 2022)

F. Brett Cox, "Roger Zelazny" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

85* Pu Wang and John Plotz look back on their Cixin Liu interview

Darts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative Fiction

Nandita Dinesh, "This Place That Place" (Melville House, 2022)

B. L. Blanchard, "The Peacekeeper" (47north, 2022)

84* Cixin Liu Talk About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)

Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao: A Novel" (W. W. Norton, 2022)

José Rivera, "Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)

The Career of a Writer: A Discussion with Douglas Richards

John Scalzi, "The Kaiju Preservation Society" (Tor Books, 2022)

Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)

On Teaching Religion on YouTube

Khan Wong, "The Circus Infinite" (Angry Robot, 2022)

Outdated Futures

Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Chris Panatier, "Stringers" (Angry Robot, 2022)

Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)

3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)

Mike Chen, "Light Years from Home: A Novel" (Mira Books, 2022)

Sequoia Nagamatsu, "How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel" (William Morrow, 2022)

Tochi Onyebuchi, "Goliath" (Tordotcom, 2022)

Ron Walters, "Deep Dive" (Angry Robot, 2022)

Matthew C. Kruger, "What The Living Know: A Novel of Suicide and Philosophy" (Nfb Publishing, 2020)

Dan Hanks, "Swashbucklers" (Angry Robot, 2021)

Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

Patricia A. Jackson, "Forging a Nightmare" (Angry Robot, 2021)

Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis, "2034: A Novel of the Next World War" (Penguin, 2021)

Phil M. Cohen, "Nick Bones Underground" (Koehler Books, 2019)

Jennifer Marie Brissett, "Destroyer of Light" (Tor Books, 2021)

Ryka Aoki, "Light From Uncommon Stars" (Tor Books, 2021)

Cadwell Turnbull, "No Gods, No Monsters" (Blackstone, 2021)

S. Qiouyi Lu, "In the Watchful City" (Tordotcom, 2021)

Jackson Ford, "Eye of the Sh*t Storm" (Orbit, 2021)

Gautam Bhatia, "The Wall" (Harper Collins, 2020)

Sarah Gailey, "The Echo Wife" (Tor Books, 2021)

Andy Weir, "Project Hail Mary: A Novel" (Ballantine Books, 2021)

Adrian Tchaikovsky, "The Doors of Eden" (Orbit, 2020)

Ginger Smith, "The Rush's Edge" (Angry Robot, 2020)

Robbie Arnott, "The Rain Heron" (FSG Originals, 2021)

Alison Stine, "Road Out of Winter" (Mira Books, 2020)

S. B. Divya, "Machinehood" (Gallery/Saga Press, 2021)

Chris Panatier, "The Phlebotomist" (Angry Robot, 2020)

R. W. W. Greene, "The Light Years" (Angry Robot, 2020)

Rebecca Roanhorse, "Black Sun" (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020)

Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Ministry for the Future" (Hachette, 2020)

Paul Kingsnorth, "Alexandria" (Graywolf Press, 2020)

Alix E. Harrow, "The Once and Future Witches" (Redhook, 2020)

P. Djèlí Clark, "Ring Shout" (Tordotcom, 2020)

Jasper Fforde, "The Constant Rabbit" (Viking, 2020)

Diane Cook, "The New Wilderness" (Harper, 2020)

Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (Benbella Books, 2020)

Madeline Ashby, "ReV: The Machine Dynasty, Book III" (Angry Robot, 2020)

Premee Mohamed, "Beneath the Rising" (Solaris, 2020)

Ilze Hugo, "The Down Days" (Skybound Books, 2020)

Tochi Onyebuchi, "Riot Baby" (Tor.com, 2020)

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

Brian Crim, "Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Megan E. O'Keefe, "Velocity Weapon" (Orbit, 2019)

Laura Lam, "Goldilocks" (Orbit, 2020)

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Tyler Hayes, "The Imaginary Corpse" (Angry Robot, 2019)

Ken Liu, "The Hidden Girl and Other Stories" (Gallery/Saga Press, 2020)

K. M. Szpara, "Docile" (Tor.com, 2020)

Karl Schroeder, "Stealing Worlds" (Tor Books, 2019)

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Nino Cipri, "Homesick: Stories" (Dzanc Books, 2019)

Kameron Hurley, "The Light Brigade" (Saga Press, 2019)

Mike Chen, "A Beginning at the End" (MIRA, 2020)

Seanan McGuire, "Middlegame" (Tor.com, 2019)

K Chess, "Famous Men Who Never Lived" (Tin House, 2019)

Sarah Pinsker, "A Song for a New Day" (Berkley, 2019)

Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy" (Gylphi, 2019)

Craig DiLouie, "Our War" (Orbit, 2019)

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

H. G. Parry, "The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep" (Redhook, 2019)

John Birmingham, "The Cruel Stars" (Del Rey, 2019)

Annalee Newitz, "The Future of Another Timeline" (Tor, 2019)

Cadwell Turnbull, "The Lesson" (Blackstone Publishing, 2019)

C.A. Fletcher, "A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World" (Orbit, 2019)

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, "This is How You Lose the Time War" (Gallery, 2019)

David Wellington, "The Last Astronaut" (Orbit, 2019)

Eliot Peper, "Breach" (47North, 2019)

Vandana Singh, "Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories" (Small Beer Press, 2018)

Audrey Schulman, "Theory of Bastards" (Europa Editions, 2018)

Caitlin Starling, "The Luminous Dead" (Harper Voyager, 2019)

Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

Meg Elison, "The Book of Flora" (47North, 2019)

Charlie Jane Anders on Space Colonization, Permanent Midnight, and Nuclear War

Tade Thompson, "The Rosewater Insurrection" (Orbit, 2019)

Mike Chen, "Here and Now and Then" (MIRA, 2019)

James Rollins, "Crucible" (William Morrow, 2019)

Tom Sweterlitsch, "The Gone World" (G.P. Putnam Son's, 2018)

Catherynne M. Valente, "Space Opera" (Saga Press, 2018)

Peng Shepherd, "The Book of M" (William Morrow, 2018)

Bina Shah, "Before She Sleeps" (Delphinium Books, 2018)

Alec Nevala-Lee, "Astounding" (Dey Street Books, 2018)

Steven Shaviro, “Discognition” (Repeater Books, 2016)

Eliot Peper, “Borderless” (47North)

John Crowley, “Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr” (Saga Press, 2017)

Wade Roush, ed., “Twelve Tomorrows” (MIT Press, 2018)

Karin Tidbeck, “Amatka” (Vintage, 2017)

Rebecca Roanhorse, “Trail of Lightning” (Saga Press, 2018)

Rivers Solomon, “An Unkindness of Ghosts” (Akashic Books, 2017)

K.R. Richardson, “Blood Orbit,” (Pyr, 2018)

Martha Wells, “Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries” (Tor, 2018)

Sam J. Miller, “Blackfish City” (Ecco, 2018)

Daryl Gregory, “Spoonbenders” (Knopf, 2017)

Maggie Shen King, “An Excess Male” (Harper Voyager, 2017)

Fonda Lee, “Jade City” (Orbit, 2017)

Douglas Lain, “Bash Bash Revolution” (Night Shade Books, 2018)

Annalee Newitz, “Autonomous” (Tor, 2017)

E.J. Swift, “Paris Adrift” (Solaris, 2018)

Mur Lafferty, “Six Wakes” (Orbit, 2017)

Tim Pratt, “The Wrong Stars” (Angry Robot, 2017)

Meg Elison, “The Book of Etta” (47North, 2017)

Robert J. Sawyer, “Quantum Night” (Ace, 2016)

Nick Montfort, “The Future” (MIT, 2017)

Omar El Akkad, “American War” (Knopf, 2017)

David Walton, “The Genius Plague” (Pyr, 2017)

Becky Chambers, “A Closed and Common Orbit” (Harper Voyager, 2017)

Stephen Baxter, “The Massacre of Mankind,” (Crown, 2017)

Julie E. Czerneda, Ed., “Nebula Awards Showcase 2017,” (Pyr, 2017)

John Rieder, “Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System” (Wesleyan UP, 2017)

PJ Manney, “(ID)entity,” (47North, 2017)

Malka Older, “Null States,” (Tor, 2017)

Ben H. Winters, “Underground Airlines” (Mulholland Books, 2016)

Claudia Casper, “The Mercy Journals,” (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016)

Patrick S. Tomlinson, “Trident’s Forge: Children of a Dead Earth, Book Two” (Angry Robot, 2016)

Linda Nagata, “The Last Good Man” (Mythic Island Press, 2017)

Nicky Drayden, “The Prey of Gods” (Harper Voyager, 2017)

Aliette de Bodard, “The House of Binding Thorns” (Ace, 2017)

Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)

Ada Palmer, “Too Like the Lightning” (Tor, 2016)

Eliot Fintushel, “Zen City,” (Zero Books, 2016)

Dave Hutchinson, “Europe in Autumn” (Solaris, 2014)

Ramez Naam, “Apex” (Angry Robot, 2015)

Adam Rakunas, “Windswept” (Angry Robot, 2015)

Marguerite Reed, “Archangel” (Arche Press, 2015)

PJ Manney, “(R)evolution” (47North, 2015)

Brenda Cooper, “Edge of Dark” (Pyr, 2015)

Douglas Lain, “After the Saucers Landed” (Night Shade Books, 2015)

David B. Coe, “His Father’s Eyes,” (Baen, 2015)

Katherine Addison, “The Goblin Emperor” (Tor Books, 2014)

Jane Lindskold, “Artemis Invaded” (Tor, 2015)

Melinda Snodgrass, “Edge of Dawn” (Tor, 2015)

James L. Cambias, “Corsair” (Tor Books, 2015)

Peter Oberg, ed., “Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep” (Affront Publishing, 2015)

Porochista Khakpour, “The Last Illusion” (Bloomsbury USA, 2014)

Ferrett Steinmetz, “Flex” (Angry Robot 2015)

Meg Elison, “The Book of the Unnamed Midwife” (Sybaritic Press, 2014)

Ken Liu, “The Grace of Kings” (Saga Press, 2015)

Claire North, “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August” (Redhook)

Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015)

Jennifer Marie Brissett, “Elysium, or the World After” (Aqueduct Press, 2014)

Rod Duncan, “The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter” (Angry Robot, 2014)

Ben H. Winters, “World of Trouble” (Quirk Books, 2014)

Kameron Hurley, “The Mirror Empire” (Angry Robot, 2014)

Alex London, “Guardian” (Philomel, 2014)

Lydia Netzer, “How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky” (St. Martin’s Press, 2014)

Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn, “Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future” (William Morrow, 2014)

Brian Staveley, “The Emperor’s Blades” (Tor, 2014)

Robert Silverberg, “Science Fiction: 101” (Roc, 2014)

Max Gladstone, “Full Fathom Five” (Tor, 2014)

Andy Weir, “The Martian” (Crown, 2014)

James L. Cambias, “A Darkling Sea” (Tor, 2014)

Shelbi Wescott, “Virulent” (Arthur Press, 2013)

Emmi Itaranta, “Memory of Water” (Harper Voyager, 2014)

Greg van Eekhout, “California Bones” (Tor Books, 2014)

Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014)

Ben Hatke, “Legends of Zita the Spacegirl” (First Second, 2012)

Hugh C. Howey, “Wool” (Simon and Schuster, 2012)

Patrick James and Abigail Ruane, “The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from the Lord of the Rings” (University of Michigan Press, 2012)

R.S. Belcher, “Six-Gun Tarot” (Tor, 2013)

Ramez Naam, “Nexus” (Angry Robot, 2012)

Felix Gilman, “The Rise of Ransom City” (Tor, 2012)

Michael Gordin, “The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

Alastair Reynolds, “Blue Remembered Earth” (Gollancz, 2012)

Madeline Ashby, “vN: The First Machine Dynasty” (Angry Robot Books, 2012)

Meagan Spooner, “Skylark” (Carolrhoda Books, 2012)

D.B. Jackson, “Thieftaker” (Tor Books, 2012)

Ken MacLeod, “The Night Sessions” (Pyr, 2012)

Alison Miers, “Charlinder’s Walk” (CreateSpace, 2011)

Frederic Krome, “Fighting the Future War: An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945” (Routledge, 2011)

Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011)