The Voyage of the Heisenberg, Tom Easton (Amazing Stories 979-8230393344, trade paperback, 146pp, $14.99) March 2025.

Tom Easton is no sprinter, but a marathon runner. He held down the reviewer’s seat at Analog for thirty years, and has, of late, produced a steady stream of entertaining anthologies in his editorial capacity. Most crucially, fifty years onward from his first sale in 1974, he continues to deliver fine fiction. I ...Read More

Dark Diamond, Neal Asher (Pyr 978-1645060895, trade paperback, 668pp, $28.95) April 2025.

By my count, Dark Diamond is the twenty-third volume in Neal Asher’s Polity series, and this milestone constitutes a significant fact. While I have not read all of them—maybe half—I have discerned several things about the series. Each one is written at full balls-to-the-walls levels of exuberance and inventiveness; no filler or placeholders. While all the entries ...Read More

Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom 978-1250342249, hardcover, 112pp, $21.99) March 2025

Should a mystery be deemed “cozy,” almost by definition, if it contains a yarn shop and some interesting talk about knitting that actually proves to be a central clue? What if that yarn shop is located on a gigantic interstellar generation ship named Fairweather—helmed naturally by an AI dubbed “Ferry?” And what if one of the interlocutors ...Read More

rekt, Alex Gonzalez (Erewhon Books 978-1645661597, hardcover, 368pp, $28.00) March 2025.

Here comes another startling debut novel to give us all hope for the future of the field in the hands of a new generation of writers. But unlike Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, another recent standout premiere, this book is not conducted in a “civilized,” literary, cultured manner. Its domain is not the corridors of state, nor ...Read More

The Third Rule of Time Travel, Philip Fracassi (Orbit 978-0316572514, trade paperback, 336pp, $18.99) March 2025

I will never forget the thrill of encountering Jack London’s novel The Star Rover when I was a teen. This incredibly powerful and vivid tale of a man who can send his consciousness roaming across time and space to live again through distant events was truly thought-expanding. It was mind-opening in its large ...Read More