8 February 2023
In Marvel's Midnight Suns, you are in charge of a team of superheroes who fight villains but also hang out. Who wouldn't want to go fishing with Spider-Man or play video games with Wolverine, asks Jacob Aron
8 February 2023
Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet
1 February 2023
Veronica Roth's dystopian take on Sophocles's 2500-year-old tragedy reminds us that human nature is timeless, finds Sally Adee
25 January 2023
It pays to know what you really need from a sophisticated learning machine, particularly if you don't want a killer robot on your hands, says Simon Ings
25 January 2023
Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Steven Moffat and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers in Collision, an anthology that transmutes CERN's elusive research into science fiction
18 January 2023
From Hannibal to Whitechapel and now this fine adaptation of a bestselling video game, why do fungi so often steal the show in TV thrillers, wonders Bethan Ackerley
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
30 November 2022
Down Under, season two of Zac Efron's Down to Earth series, pulls off the trick he was after in the first season - making the pursuit of a greener, fairer world more desirable, finds Bethan Ackerley
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
23 November 2022
The incredible true story of Mars rover Opportunity turns into a moving, inspirational and downright personal tale of a little machine millions of kilometres from home
