Incarcerated, yes, but free to choose to fight fires

18 November 2020

His Dark Materials review: Season 2 is spine-chillingly excellent

16 November 2020

An exceptional cast continues to make His Dark Materials a brilliant show. The introduction of a character who studies the secrets of the cosmos is the cherry on top, says Emily Wilson

Escape Pod anthology review: Do the unexpected and rethink your foes

11 November 2020

Flipping the narrative and not doing the expected is a key theme in Escape Pod, a major new sci-fi anthology with N. K. Jemisin, Kameron Hurley and more, says Sally Adee

Culture Warlords review: An undercover examination of white supremacy

11 November 2020

Talia Lavin went undercover to join white supremacy groups that were abusing her online. Her book, Culture Warlords, makes for difficult reading

The Space Between Worlds review: Sci-fi with the multiverse done right

9 November 2020

Micaiah Johnson's debut novel, The Space Between Worlds, is a witty, deep and savvy tale about travelling throughout the multiverse

Black Box review: Smart sci fi plays with identity, fate and death

21 October 2020

Black Box is an intelligent and melancholy sci-fi film in which a man who loses his memory in a car crash takes extreme steps to get his life back, writes Simon Ings

Covid-19 news archive: Pfizer vaccine is 95 per cent effective

19 October 2020

This is an archive of the New Scientist daily covid-19 news update.

The Book of Malachi is darkly unmissable science fiction

14 October 2020

The Book of Malachi by T. C. Farren centres on a young man whose tongue has been cut out during a brutal civil war. It’s a tough, mind-bending morality tale

11 of the best sci-fi books that transport you to another world

5 October 2020

All Systems Red by Martha Wells, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin all make our list of best sci-fi escapism

Raised by Wolves review: Stunning sci-fi set on a real exoplanet

30 September 2020

HBO's Raised by Wolves is an original and visually stunning science-fiction series set on a recently discovered exoplanet. It has echoes of Prometheus, Alien and Dune, says Emily Wilson