Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction novels. Personal tastes meant we ended up with a wonderfully ...

While dozens of brilliant writers help expand the sci-fi genre every year, three specific authors helped define its rules.

A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame will be the featured speaker at a national science fiction conference hosted by the University of Kansas next month. Samuel “Chip” Delany will ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

There's the invasion by a warlike species, there's the highly evolved species trying to communicate with our primitive ...

Ringworld by Larry Niven was published in 1970 to huge acclaim, winning both Hugo and Nebula awards; it’s been in print ever since. It came out when humans had just landed on the moon and it looked ...

The enigmatic science fiction of Djuna. The radical visions of South Korea’s mononymous, pseudonymous, and officially anonymous sci-fi novelist and film critic. It would be easy to list the conditions ...

In 1968, a notoriously caustic science fiction writer accused Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry of peddling “utopian bullshit.” In 1978, this same writer — in an introduction written for Doctor Who ...

Science fiction, you (allegedly) have a sexism problem. In an incisive article for the The Guardian's book blog, Damien Walter lays out a stark gender disparity: of the 29 Grandmasters of Science ...

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 ...

Discover how Tamil sci-fi authors are bridging the gap in children's science education through accessible and engaging ...