25 November 2020
In Superintelligence, Melissa McCarthy plays a character who must show a sentient AI that humanity is worth saving. The film is a strange but captivating mix of rom-com sci-fi and action
9 November 2020
Micaiah Johnson's debut novel, The Space Between Worlds, is a witty, deep and savvy tale about travelling throughout the multiverse
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
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
5 August 2020
If you like old fashioned sci-fi of the multistranded, multidimensional epic variety, The Expanse could be for you, says Emily Wilson
8 July 2020
In the film Archive, George Almore attempts to put his late wife's memories into a machine. The project is far from a roaring success, finds Jon O'Brien
24 June 2020
New stories by authors including Neal Stephenson, Rose Eveleth and Robert Harris imagine a techno-apocalypse precipitated by the internet. Some even hint at how we could dodge it
20 May 2020
Starring youngsters who investigate a mysterious signal that may be from spies or aliens, The Vast of Night is all a bit Stranger Things, says Gege Li
6 May 2020
Code 8, a film about people with special powers that have been shunned by the world, is both a cracking crime caper and a comment on society, says Simon Ings
15 April 2020
In Altered Carbon’s version of the future, our identities are stored in chips and can be switched between bodies. The first series was a hoot. The second, however, is a bit too earnest, says Emily Wilson
