From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi novels out this month - as well as a new Doctor Who tale, says Alison Floo ...

Stellar hard sci-fi books like Children of Time and The Three-Body Problem announce themselves as proper masterpieces of the ...

Soft sci-fi books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Fahrenheit 451, and the original Dune all rank among the most ...

With deeply constructed and immersive worldbuilding, these sci-fi masterpieces span from sprawling interstellar empires to ...

Science fiction helped inspire some of Jimi Hendrix's greatest songs. Read more about the books that the music legend loved ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, first published in China in 2008, has grown from a Chinese science-fiction novel into a worldwide literary success, with its story reaching millions of readers and ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...

A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...

The National Book Foundation, together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the selected books for the 2025 Science + Literature program. The 2025 fiction selection is science fiction novel ...

Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi concepts depart significantly from established physics. A ...