The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world
9 December 2020
How do humans feel living in a world where robots outperform them, asks The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter. Clare Wilson says it's a great thought experiment
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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
Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child
23 September 2020
Netflix’s Hope Frozen documentary follows a family in Thailand that cryogenically freezes their 2-year-old daughter’s brain after she dies, creating a controversy-fuelled media storm
Don't Miss: Netflix's Away sees Hilary Swank on perilous Mars mission
2 September 2020
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The World Engines series reveals the high cost of conquering space
19 August 2020
What do we risk by expanding recklessly into the multiverse? Stephen Baxter's World Engines series is gripping but frustrating, says Sally Adee
The Lady Astronaut series tackles historical sexism brilliantly
5 August 2020
Two recent books imagine a different history of science, but one handles the prejudices of the time much better than the other, says Jacob Aron
Don't miss: Netflix updates classic sci-fi novel Japan Sinks
15 July 2020
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss
How to avoid a techno-apocalypse brought on by the internet
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
Why do so many people become obsessed with UFOs and aliens?
8 April 2020
They Are Already Here: UFO culture and why we see saucers by Sarah Scoles tries to find out what's so appealing about hunting UFOs
Providence review: Chilling sci-fi where an AI becomes god by accident
1 April 2020
Is our love affair with AI really about building a new kind of deity to meet human needs no amount of rationality can fill? Max Barry's disturbing novel Providence lays out the case, says Sally Adee
