This image, by artist Jim Burns, appeared on the cover of several science fiction books in the 1970s, including Burns’ own Planet Story, with text by Harry Harrison.

Orbit Books is trying to create the worst science fiction book cover of all time — but they’re up against stiff competition. Details, and a gallery of some of our fave bad covers, are below.

His latest book, Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art being funded on Kickstarter, is a massive hardcover collection and a curation of classic science fiction book and ...

Out today from Jayde Design is Bob Haberfield: The Man and His Art, a monograph about the artist best known for the fantasy ...

This year's Summer Poll is all about the past decade in science fiction and fantasy, so we asked critic Jason Sheehan to come up with his own list of the new sci-fi that's blowing his mind.

A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey was best known for founding Del Rey Books, a science-fiction and fantasy imprint that turned fantasy, in particular, into a major publishing category.

In Frog, for example, circular cutouts entice little fingers as a single egg transforms into a frog, avoiding the perils that wipe out the ... The best new science fiction books of July 2025. 8.

Silvia: Short fiction doesn’t get enough love, so let’s begin by talking about the briefer side of books. Fernando A. Flores, who impressed me with his science fiction novel “Tears of the ...

The complex nature of most science fiction and fantasy series means that TV adaptations are often a better choice, but I’m not picky: I just want to see these eight novels or series on the ...