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Hello Tomorrow! review: Selling holiday homes on the moon

15 February 2023

Apple TV+'s compelling new science-fiction offering is a retro-futurist piece, more 20th-century US social drama than technofest

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Arch-Conspirator review: Ancient Greek tragedy spun into sci-fi gold

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

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The Terraformers review: What do we owe the animals in our care?

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

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The best science fiction books out in 2023

28 December 2022

CERN-inspired stories, a feminist retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and a new deep future from Annalee Newitz: sci-fi fans have a lot to look forward to in 2023

Read Orris, an exclusive sci-fi short story from Arkady Martine

14 December 2022

In a future where climate change has devastated Florence’s iris fields, a perfumer makes a hard choice in the Hugo award-winning novelist Arkady Martine's short story

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The best science fiction books of 2022: Uncertainty, dystopia and hope

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

The Sandman. Tom Sturridge as Dream in episode 104 of The Sandman. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix ?? 2022

Has a recent glut of fantasy shows pushed sci-fi out of the limelight?

5 October 2022

HBO's Game of Thrones turned fantasy into a cultural phenomenon on the small screen; now, rival platforms are rushing to catch up. Are sci-fi fans being left out in the cold, asks Bethan Ackerley

L to R: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Brandon Perea in NOPE, written, produced, and directed by Jordan Peele.

Nope review: Jordan Peele UFO horror is packed with interesting ideas

24 August 2022

Nope might adopt the flying saucer cliché, but this beautifully shot spectacle from director Jordan Peele breathes new life into the sci-fi horror genre