Dystopia. Dark academia. Lady knights. Vampires. Cyberpunk cities. Drowned coasts. Magical romance. 2025 was another major year for micro-trends within the fantasy and science-fiction genres. It’s ...

We needed speculative fiction more than ever in 2025, a year when the past and the future both breathed down our necks. And this year’s best books more than delivered, dazzling us and keeping us ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

The best-selling fantasy writer Holly Black recommends novels that blend the thrills of a well-executed crime with intrigue and sorcery. By Holly Black Holly Black is the No. 1 New York Times ...

At Brown University in the 1990s, he taught one of the first courses on electronic and hypertext literature, though one can ...