One of the best science fiction books out in 2023

CERN-inspired tales, a feminist retelling of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-4 and a brand new deep future from Annalee Newitz: sci-fi followers have lots to sit up for in 2023

By Sally Adee

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz (Tor Books)

This deep future from New Scientist columnist Annalee Newitz stars a Lone Ranger kind and her associate, a telepathic moose. The mission: to maintain interlopers off a planet beneath development. Issues go awry.

Collision

Edited by Rob Appleby and Connie Potter (Comma Press)

Authors labored with particle physicists on the CERN lab close to Geneva, Switzerland, on this anthology, during which Stephen Baxter and Margaret Drabble’s thought-provoking tales do extra …