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Backlist Bonanaza: 5 Underrated Urban Fantasies

This month we're adding 5 urban fantasies from the last decade to our TBR stacks.

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Young Doctors in Space: Star Surgeon by Alan E. Nourse

Fledgling doctors learn on the go in this delightful adventure tale set aboard a spaceship...

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Book cover of The Will of the Many by James Islington

James Islington’s The Will of the Many Would Be a Perfect Show for Fans of Hypercompetent Heroes

In this thrilling high fantasy, a fugitive former royal works to bring down an oppressive empire...

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Six SFF Short Stories About Music and Musicians

Whether you're exorcising demons or soothing troubled spirits, every endeavor is better with mus...

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Maddie Martinez / The Maiden and Her Monster / Fall 2025 / Tor Books

A Cursed Forest, an Exiled Golem, and an Impossible Deal: Announcing The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez

When she ventures into the shadowed woods, Malka finds a monster, but not the one she expects...

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Cover of The Sins on Their Bones, showing flowers, guns, skulls, keys and bullets against a black background.

Read an Excerpt From Laura R. Samotin’s The Sins on Their Bones

A queer dark fantasy set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europ...

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Book cover of Escape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Enlightened Yeti: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Escape From Kathmandu

A lighthearted but subversively serious look at the community of Western expats on the roof of t...

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“Bad” Books, and the Readers That Love Them

Is it possible that books don't have to be perfectly crafted works of fiction to be worthy of ou...

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Cover of Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.

Terry Pratchett Book Club: Unseen Academicals, Part II

May your sherry whisper wonderful things to you, too

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Cover art for three pieces of short speculative fiction first published in March 2024

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: March 2024

Death, betrayal, and the unexpectedly weird in this month's short fiction spotlight.

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Book cover of the SFF anthology Nordic Visions

Nordic Visions Provides a Unique Overview of Contemporary Nordic SF, Fantasy, and Horror

A recent anthology celebrates a broad range of short stories, from ghost stories to fairy tales...

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Artist's conception of the asteroid belt

Five SF Novels Inspired by Disproven Scientific Theories

Plenty of exciting hypotheses eventually fall out of scientific favor — but not before they've f...

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