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

Science fiction is only one of many popular cultural forms which have been incorporated into contemporary cultural production as the conventional modernist boundaries between high and low have become, ...

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

Science fiction, as Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote, is not predictive but descriptive, and what contemporary science fiction authors are so often describing is a world that seems to be less and less ...

Science fiction, as Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote, is not predictive but descriptive, and what contemporary science-fiction authors are so often describing is a world that seems to be less and less ...

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

The story introduces a simulated gravitationless environment—a concept that, while seemingly futuristic, has roots in ...

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “children of Woolpit”, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and ...

Sci-fi novels reflect cultural anxieties through themes like climate crisis and AI, shaking readers to their core. Some great sci-fi books, like Dark Matter, delve into multiple realities with ...

This satirical travel narrative is considered by many to be a significant precursor of the modern science fiction novel. Jonathan Swift’s provocative and controversial novel is infused with ...

With the number of truly great sci-fi movies released in 2024, some moments stand out and are our favorites of the year.

Science fiction is only one of many popular cultural forms which have been incorporated into contemporary cultural production as the conventional modernist boundaries between high and low have become, ...