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by Amy Giacalone July 20, 2016 1

Reviews

‘Neon Green’ Mixes Sci-Fi, Family Drama, and 90s Nostalgia

At first, Margaret Wappler’s Neon Green seems like a typical family drama set in the mid-90s. Ernest, Cynthia, and their two teenage children—Gabe and Alison—live in a Chicago suburb near a park.

by Nora Grubb June 30, 2016 1

Features

10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels to Read This July

Forget the flippant summer beach read. Ring in the dog days with these 10 science fiction, fantasy, and speculative novels picked as July’s best.

by Sara Cutaia May 17, 2016 7

Reviews

A Historical Future: ‘Too Like the Lightning’ by Ada Palmer

Sci-fi in the vernacular of the Enlightenment.

by Adam Morgan April 7, 2016 4

Features

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Next Book, New York 2140, Will Feature a Half-Submerged Manhattan

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with science fiction as a teenager, thanks to the groundbreaking Mars trilogy about mankind’s centuries-long colonization of the red planet. His most recent novel, Aurora, about a generation ship tasked with investigating and colonizing the first exoplanet, made my year-end list of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2015.