In this final novel of The Daevabad Trilogy, Ali, Nahri, and Dara are morally challenged beyond endurance by the rise of death magic in their beloved kingdom. How they respond changes everything.

We’ve had enough tricks already in 2020, so here’s a treat instead.

Craig Laurance Gidney’s Marsh-bell Queen is half muse, half greedy ghost, and all fascinating.

There is so much out there to read, and until you get your turn in a time loop, you don’t have time to read it all to find the highlights.

Butterfly Lampshade is Aimee Bender’s first novel in a decade and the follow-up book to her incredible short story collection The Color Master (2013). A book about memory and isolation that we didn’t know we needed.

Still thinking about Shiv Ramdas and Ted Chiang’s Hugo/Nebula-nominated stories, “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing,” and “Omphalos”

Karen Osborne’s debut is part sci-fi adventure, part love story, and 100% critical of unfettered corporate capitalism.

Every Bone a Prayer, the impressive debut novel by Ashley Blooms, is an expressionistic To Kill a Mockingbird of personal trauma.

A look back at Anya DeNiro’s mind-bending weird fiction collection, Tyrannia and Other Renditions.

The new novel from the author of Station Eleven is eerily relevant, and it’s not even about a pandemic this time.

A diverse collection of sci fi and fantasy stories and poems about Western and Eastern dragons and their relationships with families and humans, blood and gold.

In a world on the brink of collapse, a quest to save the future, one defeat at a time.

Looking for your next read? Check out Malcom Devlin’s Engines Beneath Us available now from TTA Press.

Feeling a little overwhelmed? Our contributors have reading recommendations to get you through whatever crazy apocalypse comes next this summer.

What could be more speculative at this moment than a vision of utopia? Utopia’s are hard to write. First, there’s convincing the reader that it’s possible at all. Contributor C.S. Peterson explores the haunting utopian visions of N. K. Jemisin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Aliette de Bodard, and S.L. Huang

Find meaning and beauty in the midst, and aftermath, of pandemic in Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars.

You won’t want to miss this haunting debut collection. Thin Places by Kay Chronister available now from Undertow Publications.

Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.

In the crucible of catastrophe, we learn deeper truths about love, loyalty, and compassion.

Reading something dark and fantastic is great for enduring a pandemic.

What does it mean to have agency when we find ourselves at the mercy of events utterly beyond our control?

The stories of award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones are brimming with heart, hurt, humor, and gallons and gallons of blood. Fiction Unbound contributor C.S. Peterson talks with Mr. Jones to talk about monsters, his newest novel, and why the dogs never survive.

For Black History Month, some favorite short stories and novels by new and classic black SF/F writers.

Nino Cipri’s novella FINNA, reviewed.

Considering ridding yourself of your semi-sweet? Give them a speculative test. Do they love these nuggets as much as you should? If so, consider keeping them around. In whatever form.

In Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House the unlikely place of New Haven, Connecticut is one of the world’s centers of magical power.

The Star Wars saga never fails to ignite passionate debate. Fiction Unbound contributors Corey Dahl and C. S. Peterson talk about the troubled template of Campbell’s hero’s journey and what The Rise of Skywalker says about where we are on our quest.