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Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time.
Whether you’re curious about exploring the galaxy or the ways our own history may have gone differently, there’s a sci-fi ...
Lincoln Michel’s new novel, Metallic Realms, is a skillful send-up of science fiction fandom and writing group dynamics, set ...
What we find at the intersection of science fact and science fiction, from utopian metropolises to visitors from other worlds. By Laura Baisas By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Mack DeGeurin By ...
Robert Jackson Bennett Having read “The Tainted Cup,” the first book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s new series of science ...
There is no good explanation for the ineptitude of ... but that does not make the book science fiction, any more than flippers make a cat a penguin. In the final analysis the book is hideous ...
The book’s coverage mirrors what I present ... Our class is called “The Biology of Popular Science Fiction TV and Movies,” and we challenge students to not just throw stones at scientific ...
Its pages feature neat, hand-lined grids in which an adolescent Clarke lists his precious science fiction possessions. He rates the works, too—“good,” “very good” and the rare “very ...
It fuses science journalism with popular romance ... This trilogy breathes new life into science fiction in the 1990s. The first book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (1993–1996 ...
Evangeline Maddams says the event is a good way of attracting people to the library. Carole Ann Ford is the last surviving original cast member of the first Doctor Who series. Children are invited ...