The 6 Best Science Fantasy Books Released Since 1990, Ranked

Some books feel like they were written after the author got tired of hearing what a genre is supposed to contain. Good. That impatience has produced some of the most exciting speculative fiction of the last thirty-five years. You get witches standing next to physicists, necromancers flying through space, industrial cities powered by forces nobody would sensibly call either magic or science, and apocalypses where geology itself becomes part of the social order.