While there are no big names publishing new science fiction novels this May, there are some real gems nonetheless – including a big tip from me, Grace Chan’s near-future Every Version of You.I ...

The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.

I found that the science fiction books in those 10 elementary school libraries were checked out at a higher rate per book than all of the other genres. Science fiction had 1-2 more checkouts per ...

Comment The best new science fiction books of October 2023. From an authorised sequel to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to a collection of newly discovered short stories from the late ...

The world of fantasy books has been dominated lately by romance-fantasy hybrids and cozy coming-of-age stories disguised as adult fiction. So Lev Grossman’s “The Bright Sword” stands out as ...

4 science fiction and fantasy books mine a real issue: Climate change. Books by Ray Nayler, Stephanie Feldman, Akil Kumarasamy and R.B. Lemberg challenge the reader to get used to the unthinkable.

A rich visual history of science fiction's impact on real-world technologies, this book is perfect for lovers of H. G. Wells, Star Trek, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, and 2001: A Space ...

New science-fiction and fantasy novels from Heather Fawcett, Moses Ose Utomi and M.R. Carey. By Amal El-Mohtar At a glance, EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES (Del Rey, 317 pp., $28), by ...

Cooper’s informed, engaging account of the ways that science-fiction planets correspond to their real counterparts provides a lucid primer on exoplanets, while also demonstrating that Gernsback ...

Black women have always gathered knowledge faster than society writ large gathers wisdom. Thus, a Black woman science fiction — or fantasy — writer might be the most prescient writers of these ...

We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M ...