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

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

Photo: IC H.G. Wells, a beacon in the realm of science fiction, has particularly captivated me with his novel titled The Time ...

Today, science fiction is a well-read genre and a huge part of popular culture. In fact, many of us will remember one of the ...

Thus the science fiction writer can portray Jupiter as easily as the medieval painter can portray Heaven; neither of them has been there, but that doesn't matter. To turn from other modern fiction to ...

The world we carve with our blood remains a world of people. It is in the face of these realities, not in spite of them, that I discover the gift of world builders and science fiction. Writers imagine ...

And there's a good reason for that, according to a panel of award-winning science fiction writers at the recent Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C.. "We try to inspire other people to dream ...