You’d be hard pressed to find a nerd who doesn’t enjoy at least one sweeping space saga. Some of us are devotees to The Doctor and the TARDIS, a cosmic joyride that can take us (almost) anywhere in ...

This is definitely on my reading list: in fact, I am hoping we might choose it for a future New Scientist Book Club read. Longlisted for the Booker already, it has been described by our sci-fi ...

Science fiction films are treated roughly by awards season, but critic Roger Ebert was famous for loving the genre. Here are ...

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is soon returning to our screens with new sci-fi show Pluribus, a total enigma starring ...

Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His focus now is on solving real problems — like climate change. By Alexandra Alter ...

Her and Under the Skin ignore logic and plausibility in favor of introspective and emotional character-focused narratives.

One of my overlooked favorites is Dark City, a mind-bending techno-noir thriller that explores the idea of identity against ...