Worldbuilding vital to sci-fi and fantasy

SCIENCE fiction and fantasy have a unique way of reshaping reality, often in surprising and striking manners.

- Nova Ren Suma

Authors in these genres frequently refer to “worldbuilding” which involves creating settings that blend the familiar with the extraordinary or entirely new worlds governed by different rules. As these new books prove, you cant tell a great speculative fiction story without a compelling world.

At a ruined Catskills hotel called the Neves, a supernatural mist protects a women-only community from interlopers. The women, refugees from domestic violence and other dangerous situations, lived together in uneasy harmony — until three years ago, when Pola was arrested for double homicide and her daughter Talia was taken to live with Pola’ sister.