The Breakup, Kurt Andersen (Random House 978-1-98480-137-1, $30.00, 553pp, hc) August 2026. The fall of the United States, a triptych, part three. The early 2030s again, a civil war again, but a di…

The Breakup, Kurt Andersen (Random House 978-1-98480-137-1, $30.00, 553pp, hc) August 2026. The fall of the United States, a triptych, part three. The early 2030s again, a civil war again, but a di…

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Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.

The October 2026 Locus magazine, issue #789, has interviews with Stephen King, Tananarive Due, and Paul Tremblay. The issue includes a feature on horror with spotlights by K. Ancrum, K-Ming Chang, …

So Mayer Under Review:Alston Moor. Anne Charnock. Goldsmiths, September 2026.Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture. Noelle Catharine Allan. Black Lawrence Press, September 2026. It feels strange to proffer c…

The Hunger of Those Who Built It, Wendy War­ing (Stelliform Press, 978-1-99846-605-4, $21.99, 376pp, tp) September 2026. Cover by Juliane Van Huizen. From a near future that tends towards the abstr…

As the bestselling author Hernan Diaz turns from the competing histories of Trust to the distant future in new novel, Ply , we recommend four other literary takes on America's potential tomorrows.&nbs...

The Hunger of Those Who Built It, Wendy Waring (Stelliform Press, 978-1-99846-605-4, $21.99, 376pp, tp) September 2026. Cover by Juliane Van Huizen. From a near future that tends towards the abstract ...

Traitors' Nest, Frances Hardinge (First Ink UK 978-1-52909-064-2, £16.99, 448pp, hc) August 2026. (Amulet 978-1-4197-9414-8, $19.99, 400pp, hc) September 2026. For the villagers who farm the valley where Frances Hardinge's Traitors' Nest begins, their world is arranged in a straightforward hierarchy. The lord in the castle sends commands through his bailiff, who talks to local leaders like the game warden Joett, who organizes the farmers accordingly, and sends their complaints …Read More

The Ancillary Review of Books is looking to grow our editorial team!  ARB is an online magazine that publishes reviews and critical essays, centered on speculative fiction and related non-fict…

The Infinite State, Richard Swan (Tor, 978-1-25038-622-9, $29.99, 416pp, hc) August 2026. Richard Swan's career to date has been pleasingly catholic in genre terms, and perhaps increasingly typical within our field. After an early self-published military SF trilogy, The Art of War (2015-2016), he was picked up by Orbit for epic fantasy trilogy Empire of the Wolf (2022-2024), and currently has another trilogy in the same setting ongoing, of which …Read More