26 May 2022
Doctor Who is the longest-running sci-fi series in the world. And whilst it might seem fantastical, many of the ideas that feature in the 59-year-show are drawn from topical scientific ideas
25 May 2022
Silicon Valley media entrepreneurs might talk about free speech, but it is a fallacy that we should be able to say whatever we want to whomever we want, warns Annalee Newitz
25 May 2022
What would you say to a bat – or a dolphin – if you could? An ingenious radio programme by sci-fi writer Matthew de Abaitua imagines an animal-human translation machine
18 May 2022
Sissy Spacek and J. K. Simmons are the beating heart of this Amazon Prime Video television series about an ageing couple who have a door to another planet in their backyard
18 May 2022
Poignant, playful sci-fi adventure features a woman coping with everyday chaos as well as a threatened multiverse
11 May 2022
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
5 May 2022
This lo-fi role-playing game set aboard a decaying space station sees you play as a Sleeper, a human mind in a robot body. Multiple storylines to explore create a fantastic sci-fi tapestry, finds Jacob Aron
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
27 April 2022
Elisabeth Moss is after a killer who is defying all known laws of reality in Shining Girls, an unsettling Apple TV+ adaptation of Lauren Beukes's science-fiction thriller
20 April 2022
The new science fiction novel from Station Eleven's author is mostly set centuries into the future – but also contains scary glimpses of a pandemic-strewn past
