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Visitors inside the Off-World section of the exhibition, while a swarm of bioluminescent creatures emerge above their heads

Voyage to the Edge of Imagination review: A compelling new sci-fi show

9 November 2022

A new exhibition at the Science Museum isn't so much about science fiction, as it is about involving you in a journey through the cosmos


Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar

From Interstellar to Hidden Figures: 12 of the best space movies

3 August 2021

Interstellar, Moon, Proxima, Alien, Hidden Figures... From science fiction to biographical drama, does your favourite movie about space make our list?


(Left to right) Shamier Anderson, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim and Toni Collette in Stowaway

Stowaway review: A claustrophobic and philosophical space thriller

22 April 2021

Netflix 's Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson and Toni Collette, tells the story of a space crew who face an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger compromises the lives of everyone on board


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The Space Between Worlds review: Sci-fi with the multiverse done right

9 November 2020

Micaiah Johnson's debut novel, The Space Between Worlds, is a witty, deep and savvy tale about travelling throughout the multiverse


11 of the best sci-fi books that transport you to another world

11 of the best sci-fi books that transport you to another world

5 October 2020

All Systems Red by Martha Wells, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin all make our list of best sci-fi escapism


For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

19 February 2020

When the Soviet Union lands on the moon first people in the US are shocked. But For All Mankind provides an even bigger surprise when one cosmonaut's identity is revealed, says Emily Wilson


A sci-fi anthology offers widely divergent glimpses of the future

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


space cruiser

Sci-fi film Aniara's best trick is to make the future feel like now

4 September 2019

Aniara's story of an interplanetary cruiser thrown off-course is one of 2019’s smartest movies because it understands the future, says Simon Ings in his latest column


Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

26 April 2019

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London's Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination for the futuristic design culture of the 1960s and 1970s. 


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The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era

20 February 2019

The Wandering Earth, an adaptation of Cixin Liu's story of humans struggling to move Earth to a new home, is coming to Netflix. Our review: Despite a few science bloopers, it's cinematic gold


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