From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

His most well-known novel, The Three-Body Problem, won the Hugo Award, the nearest thing science fiction has to a heavy-hitting prize, in 2015. Closer to home, he’s won the Galaxy Award, China’s most ...

Different visions of the future are springing up around the globe. Tom Cassauwers explores what these movements reveal about the places in which they appear – including China, Russia and Africa – and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. America and Britain recently accused hackers linked to China of an array of cyber attacks. In response the US ...

The dystopias of Chinese science fiction are resonating in a world facing existential threats. By Will Dunn One afternoon in June 1999, more than three million Chinese schoolchildren took their seats ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last November, thousands of diehard Chinese science-fiction fans thronged to Chengdu for the first ever AsiaCon ...

Third China Science Fiction Conference has been kicked-off in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. According to details, writers, scientists, movie makers and fans across China will be gathered and will ...

For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi ’s biggest annual event, was held in the country ...