Science Fiction

Dan Simmons published Hyperion in 1989, and the science fiction community has been arguing about where it ranks among the best the genre has produced ever since. The argument usually ends with it near the top. The novel is the first book in the Hyperion Cantos series, and it won the Hugo Award for Best…

An Asylum of Mirrors Chris Panatier’s The Redemption of Morgan Bright is the kind of novel that earns its horrors honestly. Published in 2024 by Angry Robot, it follows Morgan Bright, a woman who checks herself into Hollyhock Asylum under a false identity in order to uncover the truth behind her sister Hadleigh’s death. What…

The Font of All Authority Ever Dundas’s debut novel HellSans is a work of sustained invention. Published in 2022 by Solaris, it imagines a near-future United Kingdom in which a single typeface, HellSans, has been enshrined as the national standard, enforced by law in all public communications and spaces, and capable of inducing a state…

Bootleg Magic in the City of Smoke Jasmine Gower’s debut novel Moonshine arrives with the confidence of a writer who knows exactly what kind of book she has written. Published in 2018 by Angry Robot and nominated for the Endeavour Award in 2019, it is a fantasy set in Soot City, a version of 1920s…

Alex Thomson’s Spidertouch, published by Angry Robot in December 2021, drops you into the besieged city of Val Kedic, a place ruled for centuries by the Keda, a mute alien race that communicates through an intricate system of touch called fingerspeak. At the center of the story is Razvan, a middle-aged translator who learned this…

Imagine waking up one morning to find that the most advanced minds in history have packed up and left. Not gone to war, not collapsed under their own weight, just gone: beyond the orbit of Mercury, out past the reach of ordinary human concern. That is the world Matthew De Abaitua builds in The Destructives,…

Matthew De Abaitua published If Then in 2015 through Angry Robot Books, and it remains one of the most quietly ambitious British science fiction novels of the past decade. The second book in De Abaitua’s loose Seizure Trilogy (following The Red Men), it takes the familiar dystopian premise of algorithmic control and does something genuinely…

K.C. Alexander’s debut novel Necrotech arrived in 2016 from Angry Robot, the first entry in the SINless series. It drops you into a near-future cityscape where corporations own everything worth owning, where the government issues a SIN (Security Identification Number) to every citizen, and where people who refuse that system become SINless: off the grid,…