Samantha Holloway

Book one of the Waning Moon Duology introduces us to five sister-princesses who discover that their lavish life in the palace is not everything they think it is.

Set 18 years after Assassin's Heart, Thief's Cunning is less a sequel and more a separate book in the same world.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of our leading science writers who has a talent for making complicated ideas built of math and physics accessible to people who aren't experts in those fields.

All Systems Red is the story of a Murderbot who doesn't much get around to murdering, partly because TV is so good and partly because of social anxiety over bonding with humans.

This fifth and last book of Lady Trent's Memoirs, Within the Sanctuary of Wings travels into one of the last unexplored places in her world in search of a new kind of dragon, just as war t

What a strange, bizarre, wandering, surreal, hard-to-explain but easy-to-feel book Shadowbahn is.

Level Grind is a compilation of the first four short novels of the Twenty-Sided Sorceress series, an urban fantasy collection about Native American sorceress-in-hiding Jade Crow and her mo

“Cold-Forged Flame is an exciting and engaging start to a new series.”

Volume 2 of the Night Vale Episodes collection comes out at the same time as Volume 1.

Star Wars Insider has proven again that it's an invaluable resource for fans of the Star Wars movies and everything that goes into making them.

The Regional Office is one part pre-crime from Minority Report, one part Division from La Femme Nikita, and a smattering of mostly off-stage scifi and fantasy.

Isabella, Lady Trent's adventures continue here in this fourth book of the Natural History of Dragons series, where she finds herself sent to Akhia, a place somewhat like the Egypt with shades of o

By this point, we would be forgiven believing we know all there is to know about the Star Wars movies, but The Best of Star Wars Insider proves we don't.

If the revival of short-form fiction brings us more fun books like The Absconded Ambassador, it will have been worth it.

This isn't the only book in recent years to blend science fiction and fantasy, but it's one of the few that gets it right.

What an odd, intriguing, and often captivating book The Lizard Princess is.

“It's exciting, moving, and often beautifully written . . .”

It may not seem as if sonnets and pop songs would go together, but Didriksen proves quite well that they do.

Jim Butcher long ago proved that he had what it takes to write long, complex, but wildly readable series.

“sweet, lighthearted fun with a nice multi-layered world to spend some time in.”

Impulse is the first in a new military scifi series from Dave Bara, following the adventures of Lt. Peter Cochrane as he oversteps his bounds and eventually saves the day.

“If you like your thrillers a little on the strange and dystopian side or your dystopias a little on the mythological and crime-solving side, Peacemaker

“. . . fresh, strange, and dangerous. . . . Neverland is lush and beautiful, but edged everywhere with menace . . . the people . . . ragged-edged and wild.”

“. . . an addicting read. . . . N. K. Jemisin knows exactly what she’s doing as a fantasy writer.”

“Ad Eternum is so perfectly balanced with exactly what the reader needs to know about each character and each plot thread without any of the clutter of a longer book resulting in a

“Do not fight this book: Let it take you where it’s going, and let it show you what it wants to show you. You’ll be glad you did.”

“Dearly, Departed is a lush, roaming story, but the threads all come together masterfully at the end, with nothing left dangling. And it’s addictive.

“The latest graphic novel from Doug TenNapel proves once again that a full story can be told in pictures, and that it can be as affecting and detailed as it could be in book form. . . .

The Restorer is a near-perfect first book in a series.

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

As far as collections of short stories go, I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like is a highly mixed bag.

There are any number of handbooks for surviving a zombie apocalypse. These days, with the popularity of the variously undead, it’s practically become a genre in and of itself.

Flaming Zeppelins is a book in two parts—Zeppelins West and Flaming London—originally published as two separate books (soon to be three), and it winds up with something of a split personal

Steampunk is a genre for thinkers, and this book proves the point.

Murder in Vein starts off with a tense and exciting kidnapping, and then falls into worldbuilding that slows things down.

The Devil’s Alphabet, Daryl Gregory’s second book after 2008’s premier Pandemonium, starts simply enough: The prodigal son returns.

It’s sometimes hard to find a decent, thorough, self-contained fantasy novel, but The Charlatan’s Boy manages to accomplish all that and more.

In the sudden vast over-abundance of gloomy teen dramas in the wake of the Twilight phenomenon, it’s getting harder and harder to find one that takes an original swing at the genre.

Omnitopia Dawn has a compelling concept—a massive multiplayer online role-playing game, an MMORPG, has an important upgrade and reaches the near-mythical point of complexity that lets it transition

One of the best things about not reading anything about a book until after you read the story in it is that you get to come to a story completely blind, totally unspoiled.

Reading the Pern books isn’t like it was when Anne McCaffrey wrote them.