The best new science fiction books of 2024 Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024 This is the ...

and a new month has dawned — bringing with it new books! It seems like it's always a busy time in the science fiction and ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” ...

In “Mickey7” Mickey Barnes, a young man with little in the way of employment opportunities who is also on the run from debt collectors, signs up in a state of desperation for a mission to colonize a ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

Science fiction isn’t just about imagining the future — it’s about shaping it. Julie Zimmerman In a new series called “Sci X Sci-Fi ... One of the main characters in my forthcoming book “Automatic ...

This trilogy breathes new life into science fiction in the 1990s. The first book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (1993–1996), details the colonisation of Mars as an analogy to the ...

Science fiction books on display at Into the Unknown ... associated with the spirit of adventure – and bore out an interest in the acquisition of new territories and the discovery of lost worlds. Most ...

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