The Moonday Letters review: Genre-busting sci-fi extols hope as a duty
27 July 2022
In Emmi Itäranta's The Moonday Letters, humans have adapted to live off-world. But central to this genre-crashing thrill ride is a reminder that hope is essential
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The Men review: Gender dystopia in a world where men have vanished
29 June 2022
What would the world be like if men suddenly disappeared? That is the premise of Sandra Newman's new sci-fi novel that asks how easily we can change history, says Sally Adee
Glitterati review: Compelling sci-fi satire with hints of Black Mirror
4 May 2022
Oliver Langmead’s science fiction novel Glitterati starts out as a comedy stuffed with buffoonery and self-inflicted miseries you can chortle at, but it ends somewhere much darker, finds Sally Adee
Sci-fi is starting to exploit the infectious horrors of memes
6 April 2022
A new micro-genre of science fiction explores how mind control is at the very heart of our networked existence
The Cartographers review: A perceptive sci-fi love letter to maps
9 March 2022
In The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd’s latest work of magical realist speculative fiction, the characters have a habit of asking “what makes a map?”. The answer, it becomes clear, is its purpose, finds Sally Adee
Mickey7 review: If you want to live forever, read the small print
9 February 2022
In Edward Ashton's novel Mickey7, Mickey gets a shot at immortality by uploading his consciousness, but at what cost, asks Sally Adee
Goliath review: Tourism to a ruined Earth explores the idea of home
12 January 2022
Space colonies offer rich people a way off a broken Earth in Tochi Onyebuchi's latest sci-fi novel, but the pull of home is a powerful force, says Sally Adee
Our pick of the best sci-fi and speculative fiction books for 2022
29 December 2021
The This by Adam Roberts, Mickey7 by Edward Ashton and Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders are just some of the treats we are looking forward to this year
Two dystopian novels explore how language can be used to control us
8 December 2021
The ease with which words can be used to get inside our heads is explored in two excellent dystopian books, Outcast by Louise Carey and Battle of the Linguist Mages by Scotto Moore, says Sally Adee
Even Greater Mistakes review: Short sci-fi stories without the sexism
24 November 2021
Charlie Jane Anders delivers the ultimate answer to the stale ways women have been portrayed in sci-fi in her new collection of short stories
