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Braun: Designed to Keep is a book worth holding onto

A century of design — with and without Dieter Rams — giving credit where credit is due.

Nov 21|

Low interest rates and loneliness: the origins of the pandemic crypto boom

This Is Not Financial Advice and Easy Money attempt to explain the extremely online financial mania. Their very divergent takes show how difficult it is to fully understand.

Elizabeth Lopatto

Aug 18|

Samsung Rising goes deep on corruption, chaebols, and corporate chaos

Apr 10, 2020|

JY Yang’s Tensorate series is a sweeping, experimental blend of sci-fi and fantasy

Aug 3, 2019|

Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron is a thrilling examination of the cost of war

Jul 13, 2019|

Neal Stephenson’s Fall is Paradise Lost with brain uploading and weaponized fake news

Jun 16, 2019|

Magic for Liars blends magic school with a murder mystery

Chaim Gartenberg

Jun 15, 2019|

Storm of Locusts is like American Gods meets Mad Max: Fury Road

Jun 2, 2019|

Waste Tide is a chilling sci-fi novel about class war and trash in near-future China

May 25, 2019|

A Memory Called Empire is a brilliant blend of cyberpunk, space opera, and political thriller

May 18, 2019|

Tiamat’s Wrath raises the stakes as The Expanse nears the end

Apr 20, 2019|

The Light Brigade is a worthy successor to Starship Troopers

Mar 28, 2019|

Famous Men Who Never Lived is a powerful novel about alternate worlds and the plights of refugees

Mar 5, 2019|

Golden State updates the dystopian thriller for the #FakeNews era

Feb 16, 2019|

Foundryside is a cyberpunk adventure wrapped in an epic fantasy novel

Dec 23, 2018|

The Star Wars Archives is a monster behind-the-scenes book

Dec 15, 2018|

Big Damn Hero is a familiar trip back to Joss Whedon’s Firefly universe

Nov 20, 2018|

I want to buy this YA trilogy about gene-hacking for every teen I know

Nov 11, 2018|

Red Moon is a novel full of fascinating ideas that never come together

Nov 3, 2018|

These two books look at a pair of sci-fi’s most influential projects and their flawed creators

Oct 23, 2018|

Martha Wells’ Murderbot series is a fantastic story about what it means to be human

Oct 13, 2018|

The Nier: Automata novel gives fans yet another playthrough

Oct 9, 2018|

Ball Lightning is a gripping tale of obsession from the biggest name in Chinese sci-fi

Sep 15, 2018|

The novelization of Solo: A Star Wars Story adds new depth to the film

Sep 6, 2018|

The Lady Astronaut novels are an enthralling alternate history of the space race

Aug 22, 2018|

With Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik cements her status as one of the great YA fantasy authors

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In The Robots of Gotham, AI has taken over the world — and become exactly like us

Jul 7, 2018|

Paul Tremblay’s apocalyptic novel The Cabin at the End of the World is a parents’ worst nightmare

Jun 30, 2018|

Trail of Lightning is a breathtaking Native American urban fantasy adventure

Jun 26, 2018|

The hardest part of preparing for disasters is overcoming human nature

May 26, 2018|

The new Star Wars novel goes deep into the past and future of Han Solo

Apr 21, 2018|

John Scalzi’s Head On is a murder mystery set in a robot fighting league

Apr 17, 2018|

Space Opera is the funniest science fiction novel I’ve read since Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Apr 14, 2018|

Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain books are razor-sharp anarchist urban fantasies

Apr 7, 2018|

Nick Clark Windo’s The Feed is highly relevant after the Cambridge Analytica fiasco

Mar 25, 2018|

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach is a time-travel adventure full to the brim with ideas

Mar 24, 2018|

Gunpowder Moon is a chillingly realistic book about the fight to control the Solar System

Mar 17, 2018|

The Gone World is a brilliant, complicated novel about the consequences of time travel

Mar 3, 2018|

Semiosis is a first contact novel about coexistence with intelligent plants

Feb 10, 2018|

Emily Chang’s Brotopia takes aim at sexism in Silicon Valley

Feb 8, 2018|

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