7 September 2022
Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?
6 October 2021
No one is better qualified to write a space thriller than Chris Hadfield, who has been there and lived to tell the tale. His debut novel, The Apollo Murders, is an accomplished story
30 June 2021
Becky Chambers, the award-winning author of the Wayfarers series, builds a different world in A Psalm for the Wild-Built. But it shares the same warm optimism, finds Jacob Aron
5 August 2020
Two recent books imagine a different history of science, but one handles the prejudices of the time much better than the other, says Jacob Aron
2 March 2020
Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth's evolutionary history, with highlights including fish that upload their minds to supercomputers and cats that rule over primates
4 September 2019
We need a better handle on our ignorance if we want to improve our lives, says Ola Rosling, a proponent of factfulness - holding only opinions supported by strong facts
28 November 2018
The best fantastic novels and comic series of the year mourn a wild past and look with trepidation towards a weird future
14 June 2018
Amazon pays authors in its Kindle Unlimited programme based on the number of pages people read, which is causing some writers to publish incredibly long books
