3 July 2023
From George R. R. Martin’s new Wild Cards anthology to Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's dystopian take on America, there is a wealth of exciting science fiction out this month. Culture editor Alison Flood shares the novels she is most anticipating
25 May 2023
Justin Cronin's new science fiction novel transmutes the familiar trope of a utopia with a dark secret into a deep story with humanity at its centre. Read along with us at New Scientist's book club
25 May 2023
From Lost to The Tempest, the author of The Ferryman reveals the cultural influences behind his new science fiction novel - the first pick for New Scientist's book club
21 April 2023
AI tools can explore the ethics of AI itself, says Lavie Tidhar. His new dystopian film uses AI image-generation program Midjourney to tell the story of a well-meaning artificial intelligence trying to help the last surviving human
18 May 2022
Sissy Spacek and J. K. Simmons are the beating heart of this Amazon Prime Video television series about an ageing couple who have a door to another planet in their backyard
18 May 2022
Poignant, playful sci-fi adventure features a woman coping with everyday chaos as well as a threatened multiverse
11 May 2022
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
4 May 2022
Oliver Langmead’s science fiction novel Glitterati starts out as a comedy stuffed with buffoonery and self-inflicted miseries you can chortle at, but it ends somewhere much darker, finds Sally Adee
27 April 2022
Elisabeth Moss is after a killer who is defying all known laws of reality in Shining Girls, an unsettling Apple TV+ adaptation of Lauren Beukes's science-fiction thriller
6 April 2022
A new micro-genre of science fiction explores how mind control is at the very heart of our networked existence
