From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

The best modern sci-fi books include massive hits like Project Hail Mary and comedic works like We Are Legion.

Regardless of who wrote them, the best science fiction books of 2024 are those that went outside the box and showcased evocative stories that readers will hold with them for a long time afterward.

The following are 44 books you can look forward to in 2025.

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

The books that got me ... but well-executed fantasy and sci-fi remains my deepest source of literary joy. So it’s a pleasure to present ELLE’s picks for the best of those genres in 2024.