Novelists Amy Tan ('The Joy Luck Club') and Adam Ross ('Playworld') are among this year's L.A. Times Book Prizes honorees, while finalists include Michael Connelly, Stephen Graham Jones and Molly Jong ...

Audible has added a Read and Listen feature to its app that syncs up the audio narration and text while you're reading a book. It'll be available for those who have both Audible and Kindle ...

The 46th annual literary awards will recognize outstanding works in 13 categories, with winners to be announced on April 17.

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

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So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

Move over Xenomorph — these are the most mind-bendingly terrifying aliens in fiction. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

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 ...

We are living in the worlds imagined by Elon Musk and Sam Altman—realities shaped by Foundation, Her, and We Are Legion, where science fiction becomes strategy. The Rise of Elon Musk and Sam Altman as ...

Set in the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, the book recounts a strange atmospheric disturbance observed by science experts and residents who soon face the challenge of ...

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 ...

A 2001 study by Harold Leitenberg of The Journal of Sex Research found that women who read romance or erotic novels have 74% more sex with their partners than those who don’t. Similarly, a 2025 survey ...