The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Douglas Preston and Lionel Shriver The last remaining free city of the Forever Desert has been besieged for centuries. I love the sound of Scott Alexander Howard’s debut The Other Valley, set in a town where its past and future versions exist in the next valleys over, and of Sofia Samatar’s space adventure The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. The Morningside by Téa Obreht In a catastrophic version of the