Audiobooks and e-books continued to grow in popularity this year among patrons checking out items from the Allen County Public Library, and Rebecca Yarros’ fantasy follow-up “Onyx Storm,” and Abby ...

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This elegant novel about an actress happily married to an academic is split in half, offering two different narratives about the way a young man might come between the couple. It’s set amid the ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

After taking a long break from science fiction, Vince Gilligan is coming home. The Emmy-winning showrunner got his start on The X-Files (he wrote 30 episodes) and even penned the screenplay for Will ...

Dystopian societies and time travel anxieties are covered in this month’s selection of sci-fi offerings. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Stream it on Hulu. If there is one takeaway from this story of ...

The human drive to anthropomorphize is a strange and wondrous habit, if not always a healthy one. The rise of chatbot “therapists” and “girlfriends” is concerning, and I’ll admit I rolled my eyes when ...

Wayne Brady is entering into uncharted territory with Hard Times, the debut science fiction novel co-authored by the Broadway performer. Described as "a time-bending sci-fi thriller," Brady wrote the ...

Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...

Bad luck and strange circumstances set the stage for literature’s most famous vacation gone wrong—unseasonably cold weather and steady rain, a guest list filled with big names and bigger egos, ...

Aided by the gravitational pull of Venus and the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the fastest man-made object in history when it launched in August 2018—yet its top speed is still less than 1% of ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Amazon’s television adaptation of The Summer I Turned ...