In between writing her own fantasy novels - including the recent bestseller and our own Best of the Month pick, The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon has been reading and loving these books.

Dragons, lost spaceships, shifters, aliens, heroism, and longing fill these compelling sci-fi and fantasy series that range from three books to 10.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American announced the finalists for the 2018 Nebula Awards, one of the most famous awards in speculative fiction.

These five sci-fi and urban fantasy novels take the backdrop of the 20th century and add new players, new magic, and new cataclysms to the scene, setting the stage for can't-put-down reads.

Leopards, and spaceships, and dragons - oh, my!

A powerful satire set in 2030 keeps the tension cranked high as citizens are admonished to remain vigilant at all times.

Ann Leckie, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Marko Kloos, and Kameron Hurley tell us why these new science fiction authors have won a spot on their bookshelves.

Hate to start a series until you're sure the author will keep writing it? Take heart, because January is chock-full of amazing sequels to heart-stopping book ones.

If discovering fresh new voices gives you a special thrill, Brandon Sanderson, Faith Hunter, Zen Cho, and S.A. Chakraborty have recommendations for you.

It might be ironic that Katherine Arden started writing her historical fantasy novels set in the cold forests of medieval Russia while she was working on a coffee farm in Hawaii, but clearly her process worked: The Amazon Books editors have picked all three of her Winternight novels as Best Books of the Month.

The new year can't come fast enough, and by that I mean that I can't wait for these upcoming SF and fantasy books to fly from the shelf and into my hands.

These five new SF and fantasy books will keep you staying up late during the long winter nights.

John Scalzi talks with us about our interconnected lives, our willful blindness to realities that don't suit us, and the state of science fiction writing today. And because we weren't discussing only serious stuff, he also told us he has a Twitter handle for his cats called The Scamperbeasts.

Nora Roberts talks about The Chronicles of The One, writing (almost) 50 Eve Dallas "In Death" books, and what she's been reading and recommending.

Put these seven SF and fantasy books right at the top of your TBR pile.