4 January 2023
Annalee Newitz's new novel examines the dark side of "uplifting" animals to a state of self-awareness – and asks whose intelligence is being used as the template, finds Sally Adee
28 December 2022
CERN-inspired stories, a feminist retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and a new deep future from Annalee Newitz: sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to in 2023
30 November 2022
Uncertainty and crisis are key to this year's best sci-fi offerings, from Janelle Monáe's The Memory Librarian to Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea
16 November 2022
Writers and film makers are always using the multiverse as fuel for their plots, but Nathan Tavares gives it a new twist in A Fractured Infinity, a sci-fi novel about growing up, finds Sally Adee
19 October 2022
What is consciousness, and why do we simultaneously seek it out and dread it in other entities? Ray Nayler’s staggering novel has grand ambitions and even provides a few answers, finds Sally Adee
24 August 2022
Victor Manibo's The Sleepless and Joma West's Face are noir-inflected novels that compel with their bleak visions and great writing, both coming from distinct perspectives, says Sally Adee
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
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
6 April 2022
A new micro-genre of science fiction explores how mind control is at the very heart of our networked existence
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
