Edited by Jason Heller and Joshua Viola. Hex, $14.99 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-0-9964039-1-7
Each story in this outstanding collection is set in a near-future society with intriguing technological advances, but the social and cultural implications of these developments vary widely. Some extend familiar situations: government surveillance...
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Edited by Mark Martin. Verso (Norton, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-84467-744-3
Ten award-winning writers respond to a plea for fiction that addresses the realities of climate change and portray potential future environments. The title references environmentalist John Muir's remark "when it comes to a war between the races, I'm
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Edited by the editors of Future Tense. Unnamed, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-944700-95-9
This dynamic, dud-free anthology of 14 short stories written by some of speculative fiction’s greats provides gripping, convincing glimpses into various near futures that explore the interrelated advancement of technology, society, and human nature.
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Paolo Bacigalupi. Little, Brown, $17 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-22078-1
Printz-winner Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker) defies the expectations of the comedy-horror genre, turning this zombie novel into an effective bit of social commentary while staying true to the story’s grisly and goofy roots. In a small town dominated by...
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Paolo Bacigalupi. Little, Brown, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-22083-5
Bacigalupi’s intense and violent follow-up to Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities finds Tool—a powerful “augment” made from animal and human DNA—finally in control of the Drowned Cities (the onetime District of Columbia) after years of battle....
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Paolo Bacigalupi. Knopf, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-35287-1
Hugo Award–winner Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl) delivers an ambitious, genre-dissolving thriller and a timely cautionary tale. In an indeterminate near future, extreme water shortages have made the Southwestern United States a dystopia, with the...
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Paolo Bacigalupi. Little, Brown, $18 (496p) ISBN 978-0-316-22075-0
In this provocative thriller, Bacigalupi (The Drowned Cities) traces the awakening of a smart, compassionate, and privileged girl named Alix Banks to ugly realities of contemporary life, while seeking to open readers’ eyes, as well. Alix’s life is...
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Paolo Bacigalupi, Author . Night Shade $24.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-59780-133-1
Bacigalupi’s stellar first collection of 10 stories displays the astute social commentary and consciousness-altering power of the very best short form science fiction. The Hugo-nominated “The Calorie Man” explores a post–fossi
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Paolo Bacigalupi. Little, Brown, $17.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-316-05624-3
Set in the same horrific world as Bacigalupi’s Printz-winning Ship Breaker, this superb, violent tale concerns “war maggots” Mahlia and Mouse, two kids trying to survive in an impoverished village not far from the tropical Drowned Cites that were...
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Paolo Bacigalupi, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-353-2
The first foray into fantasy from Hugo winner Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl) is one of two novellas (the other by Tobias S. Buckell) set in a world where using magic has terrible consequences. Jeoz is a destitute alchemist living in Khaim, a city...
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Paolo Bacigalupi, Author . Little, Brown $17.99 (326p) ISBN 978-0-316-05621-2
SF novelist Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl
) makes a stellar YA debut with this futuristic tale of class imbalance on the Gulf Coast. Teenage Nailer scavenges ships with his crewmates, eking out a poverty-filled existence while avoiding dangers that...
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Paolo Bacigalupi, Author . Night Shade $24.95 (359p) ISBN 978-1-59780-157-7
Noted short story writer Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories
) proves equally adept at novel length in this grim but beautifully written tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation....
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-390-7
Guran presents 20 reprints about postapocalyptic survival, all first published between 2008 and 2012. Scenarios include genetic mutation (Margo Lanagan’s “The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross,” Nnedi Okorafor’s “Tumaki”), the threat of nuclear war (B
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Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Sunil Malhotra. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-8041-2152-1
When his friend Miguel’s family is deported, young Rabi Chatterjee-Jones uncovers a conspiracy at Milrow Meat Solutions, the small town’s local meatpacking plant, that has him and his friends dodging zombies and clashing with corporate lawyers in an
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Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell. Saga, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9729-9
Buckell and Bacigalupi’s shared setting has some solid worldbuilding, but the four novellas that comprise this collection (two by each author) vary in quality. Bacigalupi’s “The Alchemist” has the most difficult task: introducing the city of Khaim,...
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Edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti. Lee & Low/Tu Books, $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60060-887-2
Conceived in an effort to more judiciously represent ethnic and cultural diversity in YA fiction, this provocative collection, edited by SF author Buckell and literary agent Monti explores dystopian themes through multiple lenses. Instead of the...
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Edited by Gordon Van Gelder. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-61696-163-3
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—aka F&SF—has been one of the flagships of speculative fiction since its founding in 1949. While similarly lauded magazines, like Galaxy, Galileo, and If, have fallen by the wayside, F&SF steadfastly soldiers
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Paolo Bacigalupi. Knopf, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-593-53505-9
Bacigalupi (The Tangled Lands) dazzles in this addictive account of the rivalries between powerful families in a brilliantly rendered fantastical world inspired by 15th-century Florence. Narrator Davico di Regulaif’s father, Devonaci, owns a rare...
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