One of science fiction’s preeminent preoccupations, the settlement, and eventual terraforming, of Mars has been a part of the ...

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 ...

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has ...

Amal El-Mohtar is a Hugo Award-winning writer and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of “This Is How You Lose the Time War.” She is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the award-winning author of many books of science fiction and fantasy, including The Children of Time, ...

Best summer books of 2025: Science fiction on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save James Lovegrove. Published June 19 2025. Jump to comments section Print this page. Unlock the Editor’s Digest ...

Kate Elliott has written fantasy, science fiction, space opera, Young Adult fantasy, as well as two novellas set in the Magic ...

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the map of speculative fiction. But this year did have a ...