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The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. By Amal El-Mohtar Recent books by Minsoo Kang, Margaret Killjoy and ...

She is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist. Dec. 6, 2024 Of the many great books I read this year, the following 10 have stayed with me, undergirded my thoughts as I go about ...

The best new science fiction books of 2024 Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024 Jane Rogers ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. It has been a sadly light year for epic-scale science fiction, but casual readers and hardcore fans alike will be ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — A new study shows that long-term exposure to air pollution contributes to millions of deaths in India. The research emphasizes the need for stricter air quality regulations in ...

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the map of speculative fiction. But this year did have a ...

FICTION PICK OF THE WEEK A Song to Drown Rivers ... It’s a question that distils the pure curiosity of science at its most lofty. At the same time, the universe within a single cell is also ...

That idea carries through so many of this year’s best science-fiction books, which are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — A researcher has developed a new technique to detect long wave infrared (LWIR) photons of different wavelengths or 'colors.' The new detection and ...

Thirty years after the sequencing of the BRCA1 cancer-associated gene, access to genetic tests and awareness about its risks are still too limited.