
The best new science fiction books of April 2025
2 April 2025
From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month’s science fiction squares up to the big topics, with new titles from authors including Nick Harkaway and Eve Smith
2 April 2025
From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month’s science fiction squares up to the big topics, with new titles from authors including Nick Harkaway and Eve Smith
28 March 2025
"What will happen in South America when the billionaires colonise space?" asks Michel Nieva, author of 'Dengue Boy' a nightmarish future tale where a humanoid mosquito seeks revenge in the ruins of an exploited Earth
3 March 2025
John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese that takes your fancy, there’s some sci-fi here for you
28 February 2025
In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel Nieva’s mosquito protagonist – and the drowned future world she inhabits
28 February 2025
Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his story of a drowned, pandemic-struck future Earth – and his unusual protagonist
14 February 2025
Science fiction author Adrian Tchaikovsky on the science that inspires his novels, his distaste for "humanocentric" narratives and just how he is able to write so much
5 February 2025
In Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky's intriguing new novel, two women marooned on a strange moon encounter alien life – and struggle to recognise intelligence in other beings, finds Emily H. Wilson
31 January 2025
From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi offerings are rich and strange
17 January 2025
The author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth
17 January 2025
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality