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 ...

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

Whether you’re looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here. By The New York Times Books Staff The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics ...

Andy Weir’s novel is one of the most popular science fiction books in recent years, and there are many other great works that ...

Set in late-21st-century Australia, this novel (published in Australia in 2022 but out now more widely) follows Tao-Yi in a world where most people spend their lives in an immersive virtual reality ...

The bestselling book by Orson Scott Card has been ranked the "best science fiction" novel of all time on Goodreads, based on ...

Sci-fi is one of the greatest genres in entertainment. With fascinating and engaging stories that explore vast and unique worlds, sci-fi allows for us to imagine the future, other galaxies, and even ...

The best speculative-fiction novels often show the power of transformation — a person literally changing their body in some drastic way or simply having a massive shift of perspective. We read stories ...

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...

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 ...

We’re in a cultural moment of villain appreciation, spearheaded by films like “Wicked.” Science fiction and fantasy books have played into the trend, with recent bestsellers such as “Starter Villain,” ...

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 ...