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We’re lucky to be alive during a time when science fiction and fantasy authors are publishing bold, provocative stories that expand our ideas of how to talk about the future and the nature of ...

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TFIOS didn’t have to be a YA novel, I concluded--it appealed to me as much as to my students, and marketed differently, could simply have been a regular fiction novel that happened to be about ...

Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.

If you’re looking for more books to check out this summer, here are 10 science fiction and fantasy novels hitting stores in the first half of August. Check back later for the next batch.

A heist with a social conscience, a father using magic for questionable work, an urban legend turned sleepover dare: These new releases explore protagonists embracing the magic within themselves.

Historical Fiction Historical Novels With Hints of Spirituality and Magic In three journeys to the past, characters find themselves on quests that have nothing to do with the calendar or geography.