You’ve probably seen some of the colorful, abstract book cover art of Richard Powers before, and marveled at how far it pushes the envelope of representational art. How alien it looks. Over at ...

A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they’ve worn ...

Penguin art director Jim Stoddart took a minimal approach in the cover design for this series of ten classic science fiction books, which includes titles by James Tiptree Jr, Kurt Vonnegut, HP ...

The world of science fiction literature includes some truly out-of-this-world stories, which are often accompanied by astonishing, beautiful, and flat-out bizarre covers. Now, a pair of leading ...

Call something “science fiction,” and it’ll inevitably be marketed to men. Call something “romance,” and the pink covers come out. This isn’t fair to either genre, and it creates a ...

“There is perhaps a tradition for science fiction books to illustrate unfamiliar conceptualised worlds on their covers. But when judging a book by its cover, even with all the best intentions, I ...

Glenn Brown has turned some of your favorite book covers into “re-appropriated” paintings. In 1996, he painted “Ornamental Despair (Painting for Ian Curtis),” which is the spitting image ...

Datajunkie has posted an astonishing collection of over 50 covers from the beautiful 1930’s pulp Astounding Science Fiction. Curiously enough, though I was born in the late 70’s, I spent a lot ...

Pink is the color of most patient rooms in mental hospitals because it's soothing. It's also the color of many covers of books written by women. Actually, it's the color of so many books by women ...

The Language of the Night: Essays on writing, science fiction, and fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin. There are few sci-fi and fantasy writers more brilliant (and revered) than Ursula K. Le Guin.

Short stories that play with science fiction are attracting attention in the hands of writers like Liliana Colanzi of Bolivia and Samanta Schweblin of Argentina, who is now widely translated and ...

This year’s best sci-fi outings are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space.