This year鈥檚 sci-fi spans many genres, and is often聽tinged with noir Artur Debat/Getty Images
OUT of ideas for a gift? However your friends or family see life, you can be sure that this year’s crop of science fiction contains a gift (or even a gift set) that will confirm their world view.
The pessimist in your life will love (HarperCollins), Sandra Newman’s sequel to Nineteen Eighty-Four, the book that helped to define the idea of dystopia. The novel is told from the perspective of the inscrutable femme fatale whose manipulations send Winston Smith to his doom.…
