The Best Debut Fantasies

Our list of The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) features superlative titles across genres that have published within the first half of 2023. This year we have outdone ourselves—51 categories, including some you would never expect, highlighting more than 130 exceptional books.

Our list of The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) features superlative titles across genres that have published within the first half of 2023. This year we have outdone ourselves—51 categories, including some you would never expect, highlighting more than 130 exceptional books.

This Month's Pick: The Mountain in the Sea

For those that gravitate toward the science in science fiction, this book will make you rethink everything you ever thought you knew about intelligence and sentience. This riveting debut is a first contact story, an eco-thriller, and a philosophical mediation on the nature of consciousness and what humankind will leave behind as its legacy.

For those that gravitate toward the science in science fiction, this book will make you rethink everything you ever thought you knew about intelligence and sentience. This riveting debut is a first contact story, an eco-thriller, and a philosophical mediation on the nature of consciousness and what humankind will leave behind as its legacy.

Congratulations to the winners of the 58th Annual Nebula Awards! This year's prize for Best Novel was awarded to our 2022 Speculative Fiction Award Winner, Babel by R.F. Kuang. The prize for Best Novella was awarded to Even Though I Knew The End by C.L. Polk.

Congratulations to the winners of the 58th Annual Nebula Awards! This year's prize for Best Novel was awarded to our 2022 Speculative Fiction Award Winner, Babel by R.F. Kuang. The prize for Best Novella was awarded to Even Though I Knew The End by C.L. Polk.

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