AN ANCIENT INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATION’s artificial intelligences are foraging for humans on Earth. Fascinating sci-fi adventure undermined in places by rough prose. B MINUS

THE TRAVELERS BOOK 3: A SPACE OPERA
Lee Hunnicutt
2020

A BRILLIANT, WITTY PUZZLE of a book explores the connection between art and politics, and the enduring legacy of fascism. B PLUS

DON'T SHED YOUR TEARS FOR ANYONE WHO LIVES ON THESE STREETS
Knopf
2020

A GORGEOUS, SPOOKY REBOOT of the gothic horror tradition, set in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Truly frightening story told in lush, polished prose. A MINUS

MEXICAN GOTHIC
Del Rey
2020