Penguin has been publishing high-quality paperbacks of classic science fiction since the late 1950s. As times change, you can see how the book covers move from stately red and black (above) to crazed ...

Books based off of fan fiction have steadily been on the rise. On a Dec. 19 episode of the 'Book Review' podcast, 'New York ...

Rian Hughes is a comic book writer and artist, as well as a graphic designer/illustrator and typographer with all three careers rarely crossing. He has distinct and separate reputations and fanbases ...

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. Orbit is ...

I used to be embarrassed that I often buy books based on their cover, but I’m not anymore: Book covers are a labor of love, filled with artistry and design. That’s the animating force behind the ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

Jenny Grigg works in a research partnership with Giramondo Publishing. Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ...

Influenced by countless Martian sagas before it from John Carter to Buck Rogers, the title features the saga of John Hunter, the leader of a group of humans raised and trained by rebel Martians to ...

We’re all told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but most of us do! In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what a book ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you the best historical fiction of 2025, other new books we recommend, our latest reviews, World War II novels we love, books set in the 18th ...

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