Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan

Some great looking speculative novels on here 👇🏼

We are delighted to announce the longlist for the seventeenth #WalterScottPrize for #HistoricalFiction, run by The Abbotsford Trust. Congratulations to all of the longlisted authors! #longlist #booksky #histfic #sirwalterscott #booksky www.walterscottprize.co.uk/announcing-t...

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Then and now. Left: Four Ways to Forgiveness (first edition), published by Harper Prism in 1995. Right: Five Ways to Forgiveness, now including "Old Music and the Slave Women," and with an introduction by Nnedi Okorafor—coming February 25th from Union Square & Co.

Since my kids have grown, I read a LOT. This year was no different. I read fiction, non-fiction and in particular, science themed non-fiction in form of physical books, ebooks & audiobooks. Allow me to share my "read" list for 🧪📚 in 2024: 83 science themed books, 36 written by women. 🧵

I'm probably not going to read any more books before the end of the year, so let's look back at 2024 in books. I read a lot, there were a lot of books I liked, but it turns out that the more you read, the more you wonder about the books you didn't get to. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024...

Happy New Year book lovers. Hope you all get through those TBR lists in 2025!! #books #booksky

Via @tomgauld.bsky.social and @theguardian.com

My top 10 SFF of the year are up at @nytimes.com today, with one notable lacuna because I only managed to read it after I filed, so take it from me that METAL FROM HEAVEN absolutely belongs on this list & would have been if I had my shit more together, demonstrating why lists should be taken w/salt

Here is my Christmas haul! A wonderful selection courtesy of friends and family. #books #booksky

New Scientists science fiction short story top picks. Mostly classics from 20th Century. www.newscientist.com/article/2460... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #ScienceFiction #SciFi #BlueSky #BookSky #SciFiSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #ShortStory

New article - Five hard SF books (no particular order) that really impacted me: fivebooks.com/best-books/t... featuring work by @emmanewman.bsky.social Justina Robson, Chris Beckett, Terry Pratchett and Hal Clements.

Thought provoking chart and article that shows everything that has ever existed and ask the question: is the universe a black hole 🤯 www.economist.com/interactive/... from @economist.com

At Slate, Dan Kois lists The Language of the Night as one of the best literary rediscoveries of the year: "This new edition, with a thoughtful introduction by Ken Liu, should remind readers that the questions we’re grappling with now, about identity, empathy, and appropriation, are eternal."

Introducing, the Angry Robot Books 2025 list! We have so many fantastic books coming out next year, so we have compiled this list for you all! This thread will contain details for the entire year, check it out below!

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Over on the newsletter, I've rounded up 14 SF/F books that you should check out this December: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/december-202...

Adam Roberts at The Guardian names five of the best SF books from 2024. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Strap in the for the first two episodes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew! Star Wars' take on the "kids on bikes" genre is big on charm, but also has a pretty good mystery at its core: #starwarsskeletoncrew reactormag.com/star-wars-sk...

The final update to this year's best science fiction books is live! It came up a bit out of order (it's by publication, not ranked) for me, but all the same, the fall additions are at the bottom:

We're so pleased to bring back Ursula's "Navigating the Ocean of Story" posts from 2015-2016. In this series, originally hosted at Book View Café, she took questions about fiction writing and gave thoughtful answers about structure, genre, character, publishing, and so much more.

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. I sent for another bottle” Robert A. Heinlein The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress #booksky #books

Shirley Jackson, of The Haunting of Hill House fame, published her short story, “The Lottery” in the @newyorker.com 👇🏼 It’s a story where the tension builds until the gruesome ending. For a bit more on her legacy the @theconversation.com has this 👇🏼

2024 saw the launch of @waterstones.bsky.social's Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month, and we've had eleven fantastic titles so far! How many did you read? (title details in the alt txt) Can't wait to see what next year brings ♥️🚀🧙‍♂️ #BookSky #scifi #fantasy #books

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From @science.org a review of two books that discuss the impact of two space telescope programs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A lot of books to sift through on this @npr.org list but I’m gonna try! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

Settling in for winter @tomgauld.bsky.social

When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. But then Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Pre-order FUTURE’S EDGE from Titan Books and all good book retailers

I need to read some more Murakami to get into the surrealist mindset ahead of this release!

Nerdy Conan Doyle fact, the phrase "interview with the vampire" first appears in doyle's taut serial killer story A Pastoral Horror, 1890. You can read it in The Southsea Stories And Beyond, the complete uncollected stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. www.lifeisamazing.co.uk?s=southsea+s...

NEW: Award-winning fantasy books of 2024, a round-up by our SFF editor, Sylvia Bishop: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/best-fantasy-novels-of-2024/ Books by @vajra.me @tananarivedue.bsky.social

Ah, that time of the year when I can review all the “best of..” lists and see all the great stuff I missed. First up for for the music fans is Rough Trades best albums of the year 👇🏼 blog.roughtrade.com/gb/uk-albums...

From accidentally inventing killer robots to unethical experiments on humans, here are five books about weird science gone horribly wrong and tech going haywire. You know, like Jurassic Park...and all those sequels reactormag.com/five-books-a...

25 Science Fiction Books to Read in 2025 @scifimonth.bsky.social http://booksbonesbuffy.com/2024/11/19/25-science-fiction-books-to-read-in-2025/

#OTD in 1939 the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood was born. Best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, several of her other novels have also been recommended on Five Books:

Just finished book 1 of John Gwynne’s bloodsworn trilogy. Such a wild ride following the exploits of Nordic inspired warbands. Fighting, gore and blood filled the pages of every chapter with hardly a moment to take a breath. A glorious read with a splash of “deep cunning” humour. On to book 2!

What a great set of books in this thread!

My colleagues over at the @waterstones.bsky.social blog have posted their top new SFF & Horror books from 2024 🥳 What do you think? It's quite a list, but I still don't envy them having to narrow it down - it's been a great year for new genre publishing! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

And the hardback edition is a perfectly packaged wondrous thing!

Earlier this summer, The Folio Society published Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune, bringing together the first three installments of the series. I spoke with artist Hilary Clarqc about her process and how she brought Arrakis to life for both Children of Dune and Dune Messiah. Read it here:

This will primarily be about books but as a big music fan I will occasionally share some of the great music I’m listening to. The new @thecure.com album “Songs of a Lost World” is fantastic and I strongly recommend Porridge Radio “Clouds in the Sky They Will Always be There For Me”

Some lovely looking books on this Time list of best books of 2024 including Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer and Playground by Richard Powers #books time.com/collection/m...