This month's short fiction recs include strange tales, near future explorations, and at least one giant.

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan

The Abbotsford Trust has announced the Longlist for the seventeenth Prize.  The twelve books on the Longlist for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize are: VENETIAN VESPERS John Banville (Faber & Faber) THE TWO...

Aerth by Deborah Tomkins; Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix; Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao; The Garden by Nick Newman

I read 190 books in 2024. That is, I think it's fair to say, a lot of books. And yet somehow, when I come to make my year-end summary, all I...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le G...

Hard sci fi books build fantastical worlds underpinned by rigorous science. This constraint actually provokes originality, explains multi-award winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. He talks us through h...

This chart shows every object that has ever existed, and raises a question: is the universe a black hole?

From comics to sci-fi to a forgotten novel by a TV superstar.

The best sci fi books, recommended by those who know: from timeless classics of science fiction to the best new novels, taking in cli-fi, space colonies, time travel and more.

From a post-apocalyptic dystopia to a brilliant time-travel debut, a far-future take on humanity and more

The series is high on nostaglia for a certain kind of kids' adventure, but its central mystery is what really powers the tale

This year’s best sci-fi outings are full of questions about how we might live differently with one another, on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space.

Jackson was overlooked for decades by a predominantly male literary establishment who didn’t know how to categorise her deeply unsettling and uncomfortable writing.

A pair of books celebrate the discoveries made by two major space telescope programs

Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

The selection of books for sale from Portsmouth publisher, Life Is amazing.

This year’s award-winning fantasy books offer something for every taste, from melancholic fairy tales to gripping horror. Our fantasy and sci fi editor Sylvia Bishop introduces the winning titles.

Rough Trade's favourite albums of 2024 featuring SOPHIE, The Smile, Laura Marling, Ezra Collective, Fontaines D.C., Charli XCX, IDLES and more.

Stories about experiments gone wrong (or gone horribly right).

The best books by Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, poet and essayist: author of The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace.

An interview with Hilary Clarcq about her work on The Folio Society's editions of Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah and Children of Dune

The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books that entertained and enlightened us.