Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

This moving and uproarious novel by Kevin Wilson centers on Lillian, who learns the meaning of life through her unlikely care for twin children with a bizarre ability to spontaneously combust when ...

Dystopian fiction remains fairly popular, with many such stories-The Handmaid's Tale, Man in the High Castle, and Silo, to name a few-having been adapted in recent years for film and television. Each ...

The author of the Southern Reach novels recommends immersive, entertaining books that grapple with the psychological reality of navigating environmental crisis. By Jeff VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer is ...

Climate fiction is, ahem, hot right now. But I am still not sure we know exactly what it is. Certain novels are so obviously about climate change that no one could argue with that classification. One ...

The early science fiction work of William Gibson coined a term that would soon enter the vernacular, cyberspace. That was a setting of his first novel "Neuromancer" in 1984. Gibson has a talent for ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...

A decade ago, I would not have considered it worthwhile to write about the virtue of consuming fiction. Stories and narratives, whether spoken or in print, have been a hallmark of cultures across the ...

Two of the most popular casual gaming genres are visual novels and interactive fiction. These unique niches focus less on intense gameplay and mechanics, instead emphasizing compelling characters and ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues — copyright laws ...