May’s new science fiction novels include a hot tip from our culture editor, as well as war on an alien planet from Bora Chung ...

New books by Nova Ren Suma, Neon Yang, Emily Tesh and Sayaka Murata revel in the ways that speculative fiction rewrites ...

May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked. November 25, 2024 • Books We ...

Lincoln Michel’s new novel, Metallic Realms, is a skillful send-up of science fiction fandom and writing group dynamics, set ...

You would expect a science fiction book about the distant future to foreground strange technologies and new ideas, but the main function of Fellman’s future setting is to make the world feel ...

Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about them with your fellow book lovers. We’ll also be ...

This 10-episode project arrives today (May 16, 2025) and was adapted from "All Systems Red," the initial book in author Martha ... It's funny science fiction, but it's not parody and it's not ...

Gary Westfahl, who teaches at the University of California, Riverside, has written or co-edited ten books on science fiction and fantasy.

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 ...

Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century ...