15 May 2023
Stephen Marche worked with ChatGPT and other AI tools to craft this thriller. The prose is plodding and the final twist leans heavily on a Sherlock Holmes story – but this is an interesting experiment
7 September 2022
Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?
24 November 2021
Charlie Jane Anders delivers the ultimate answer to the stale ways women have been portrayed in sci-fi in her new collection of short stories
21 April 2021
As social robots edge into our lives, The New Breed by Kate Darling is a guide to how to think about them
7 April 2021
From Siri to the QWERTY keyboard, inequality is embedded in the technology we increasingly rely on. A new book, Your Computer is on Fire, is a call to recognise tech's problems – and fix them
17 February 2021
In Unity, Elly Bangs conjures a post-apocalyptic Earth where her protagonist, once part of a hive mind, faces a dangerous, fractured future. The novel is a powerful exploration of union, trauma and consent, says Bethan Ackerley
30 September 2020
Must-read book The Drone Age by Michael J. Boyle reveals how drone technology is challenging everything we do – and how we think about war and peace
24 June 2020
TV show The Imagineering Story and book Magic Journey by Kevin P. Rafferty show just how much academic research goes on at the home of Mickey Mouse, says Chris Stokel-Walker
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
3 June 2020
Watching videos of different tasks being completed is oddly satisfying and reminds us of pre-lockdown life, says Annalee Newitz
