Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds; Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle; All Tomorrows by CM Kosemen; The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson; The Witching Hour by various authors ...

Many sci-fi fans place themselves in a particular camp of speculative fiction they gravitate towards, naming as their favorites popular sub-genres like time travel, space opera, or post-apocalyptic ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The name Chris Foss might not immediately set off flurries of recognition in your neurons but his artwork almost certainly will. One ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved the ...

Next to H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke was the widest-known English writer of science fiction of the 20th century. Like Wells, he was also a voluminous author of non-fiction; both men were great ...

In a new four-part series on BBC Two, Dominic Sandbrook explores how science fiction has offered a revealing window into our dreams and our nightmares. BBC iPlayer reveals three exclusive new films ...

As the next generation of spaceships is being conceived, should shuttle designers take their inspiration from sci-fi illustrators? Generations of schoolchildren, openly, and many adults, perhaps more ...

While dozens of brilliant writers help expand the sci-fi genre every year, three specific authors helped define its rules.

A recent list of top science fiction films had some unusual choices and left out some well-regarded classics. But, says Quentin Cooper, that’s part of the problem – sci-fi is such a broad church it’s ...

There are high concepts and there are high concepts. Fifty years ago a shiny-new, big-budget science-fiction show took the Moon, with hundreds of people on it, and blew it out of the Earth's orbit. It ...

As the next generation of spaceships is being conceived, should shuttle designers take their inspiration from sci-fi illustrators? Generations of schoolchildren, openly, and many adults, perhaps more ...