Whenever we imagine a world without war or injustice, we are engaging in speculative fiction. Radicals and activists devote their lives to envisioning such worlds, and then go about trying to create them. This collection brings together 20 such stories, as well as essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia...

Now filmed as Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose.From a soaring...

The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A GAME OF THRONES There is a secret history of the world - a history in which an alien virus struck the Earth in the aftermath of World War II, endowing a handful of...