A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A.

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 ...

From monsters to fungi to paranoia, our roundup of science fiction horror books is sure to give you the chills. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the Center’s Discovery Series. The panel ...

The great thrill of reading science fiction is encountering wild new ideas — or challenging new spins on familiar ones. Plenty of sci-fi books use robots and spaceships merely as a backdrop for a fun ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term “robot” — ...

The appeal of the Project Hail Mary book lies in its blend of science, suspense, and emotional storytelling. For readers ...

From radioactive kaiju to genetically engineered nightmares, science fiction has gifted us some of the most unforgettable monsters in literature. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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“When I moved to Austin in 1998,” says Christopher Brown, who presents his dystopian debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, at BookPeople this Friday, “it was partly because I could tell that there was a rich ...

Do you want to travel to Mars, to an alternate version of 1939 London or even to the very far future? If so, then February’s science fiction is for you, with all three flavours on offer from our ...