Don't Miss: Sci-fi suburbia, star woman and London Games Festival
18 March 2020
This week, watch a sci-fi film set in an infinitely recursive suburbia, read about the woman who cracked star chemistry and catch great new games
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Found 65 results for sci-fi
Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine
11 March 2020
This week, listen as David Attenborough reads nature classic The Peregrine, learn how skyscrapers and railway cuttings offer unlikely oases for wildlife, and watch an Altered Carbon anime spin-off
Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?
4 March 2020
It’s 2038 and Earth's trees are dead, bar some firs on a tiny island. The tale of what happened is an epic combining sci-if, mystery and an exposé of capitalism, says Sally Adee
The Doors of Eden review: A gripping alternative biology tech-thriller
2 March 2020
Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth's evolutionary history, with highlights including fish that upload their minds to supercomputers and cats that rule over primates
Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils
26 February 2020
This week, listen as Reply All goes down the internet rabbit hole, watch the second series of Netflix's Altered Carbon, and ponder what fossils our culture will leave for the far future
What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?
5 February 2020
A sci-fi collection explores extreme corporate futures, such as a Tinder-run city where you can swipe left or right for everything from sex to teachers
William Gibson's Agency drops time-travel paradoxes for big questions
8 January 2020
William Gibson's Agency is part of a new batch of sci-fi that adds intriguing ethical wrinkles to the classic time-travel genre, says columnist Sally Adee
Seasonal gift ideas for lovers of terrific science reads and top films
4 December 2019
Stuck for ideas on what to get the science lover in your life? From great sci-fi to books on how to build a pond or see the stars, these are the cultural gems that staff at New Scientist recommend
A sci-fi anthology offers widely divergent glimpses of the future
23 October 2019
From alienated life in post-Arctic Sweden to the failure to engage with tech’s new intimacies, Helen Marshall explores an excellent and diverse new sci-fi anthology
Don't miss: Predictive art, sci-fi comedy and the ownership of space
9 October 2019
This week, see how Nam June Paik predicted the internetNetflix comedy Living With Yourself and find out who should own space
