romance, fantasy, science fiction, social drama, and more. Here are our best picks of novels written by Black authors. Àbíké-Íyímídé’s debut novel is often touted as Gossip Girl meets Get Out. It ...

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

It fuses science journalism with popular romance, in a story of evolution ... example of “cosy catastrophe” British fiction. As rival author Brian Aldiss famously describes, the hero indulges ...

Amal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. She is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of “This Is How You Lose the Time War.” ...