An article ranking six science fantasy books published since 2000, highlighting how the genre successfully blends magic and advanced technology without requiring readers to distinguish between the two.

– A novel by Peng Shepherd explores a dreamlike apocalypse where losing one's shadow also erases memories, causing people to fade from existence and reality itself.
– S. A. Chakraborty's "The City of Brass" follows a con artist who summons a djinn in eighteenth-century Cairo, dragging her into a hidden city rife with tribal tensions and complex caste systems rooted in Islamic mythology.
– N. K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season" depicts a world periodically destroyed by catastrophic geological events, with certain individuals called orogenes exploited to control seismic energy; the trilogy swept the Hugo Award for Best Novel three consecutive years.
– Tamsyn Muir's "Gideon the Ninth" combines gothic horror and sword fighting with a locked-room murder mystery as a sarcastic swordswoman reluctantly guards a necromancer in a deadly competition between rival houses.