“When I moved to Austin in 1998,” says Christopher Brown, who presents his dystopian debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, at BookPeople this Friday, “it was partly because I could tell that there was a rich ...

On May 29 we’ll discuss Wilson’s book, “Hole in the Sky” and his life as an author, robotics engineer, and Cherokee citizen. New York Times bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen ...

Set in late-21st-century Australia, this novel (published in Australia in 2022 but out now more widely) follows Tao-Yi in a world where most people spend their lives in an immersive virtual reality ...

In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing Science ...

There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a ...

The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds. By Martha Wells Martha Wells has been writing science fiction and fantasy ...

How to write a science fiction book?! NOW WE’RE TALKING! I have an idea for a science-fiction book, but I’m not going to tell you what it’s about, because I’m going to make a ton of money. OK, OK, ...

The starting point for this novel was that I wanted to write utopian fiction. I hadn’t done this before: all my previous novels have been straight science fiction. But utopia, the genre that imagines ...