Jason Sheehan

Rather than the time travel or war, the thrill of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's book becomes the connection between two lonely professional killers with the ability to inscribe letters on lava.

Horror writer Paul Tremblay's new short story collection is full of ghosts, monsters, nightmares and apocalypses — all of which feel so close by they might be happening to you, right now.

The pseudonymous Reed King's new novel is a loopy, violent, funny Technicolor road trip across a post-apocalyptic America. There are robots, talking goats, and even the occasional lone songbird.

Blake Crouch's new book reads like a relative of those late night college conversations about Big Questions. Here, the question is, if you could live your life over again, but differently, would you?

Elvia Wilk's new novel follows a group of aimless young people in Berlin, working, going out, coming home — until something happens that brings about a cataclysm. But is the aimlessness intentional?

Neal Stephenson's massive new novel mashes up characters readers will recognize from several previous reads, and sends them on a ride that's by turns maddening, overstuffed and revolutionary.

We're trying not to make the "long, strange trip" joke about Rudy Rucker's new novel, but it's about three teens in a beat-up purple wagon with a dark energy motor, traveling across dimensions, so ...

Seanan McGuire's new standalone novel stars twins: Roger is good at words and Dodger is good at math — and both of them find themselves caught up in a shadowy alchemical plan for world domination.

Ted Chiang's new collection is jammed with brilliant ideas — but it also makes time to take one single fascinating notion and examine it in depth, in stories that are never too long or too short.

Caitlin Starling's tense new horror novel follows a desperate young cave diver who's lied her way into a job on a dangerous planet, and the supervisor who may not have her best interests at heart.

Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.

Don Winslow's sprawling, operatic epic about the War on Drugs has some flaws, but it does the same thing Shakespeare's histories did: It simplifies current events into messy, bloody, gripping theater.