Catherynne M Valenty excoriates the current generation in her profane and profound The Past is Red.
Arkady Martine continues to reinvent and redefine the space opera in the second book of her Teixcalaan series A Desolation Called Peace
Jeff VandeMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander is a weirdly compelling neo-thriller with a definite environmental edge
Kazuo Ishiguro does artificial intelligence, androids and considers what it means to be human in Klara and the Sun
Sarah Flannery Murhpy anchors Girl One with a great speculative premise, engaging characters, a well told mystery and a classic road trip.
Honourable Mentions
James SA Corey sticks the landing in the 9th and final book of The Expanse
Nnedi Okorafor’s Noor is an Africanfuturist tale with some cyberpunk styling and a kick-arse protagonist
Derek Kunsken brings the atmosphere of Venus to vivid life with a heist thrown in for good measure in House of Styx
Claire North’s Notes from a Burning Age uses some classic espionage tropes but drops them into a solarpunk, post-apocalyptic milieu on the brink of falling back into bad habits.
Astronaut and educator Chris Hadfield delivers a retro tehnothriller set around an alternative 1973 Apollo mission
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