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
6 January 2025
From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there is plenty of great science fiction published this month
1 January 2025
We asked our writers to pick their favourite science fiction television series. Here are the results, from Battlestar Galactica to Futurama
20 December 2024
We asked ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results
11 December 2024
Join us for a review of the biggest scientific stories of the year, as told by the team at ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ. Plus, put your questions to our expert panel of journalists about their favourite articles of 2024 and what they predict will be the big science...
6 December 2024
A City on Mars authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on whether we can settle space, whether we should settle space, and have we really thought it through?
4 December 2024
There are slimmer sci-fi pickings than usual at the end of the year, but gems can still be found, whether that’s a visit to George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card universe, or a graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem
29 November 2024
Episode 278Concerns about bird flu are rising as two cases in North America suggest the virus is adapting to humans. Evidence of human-to-human transmission is not yet conclusive but public health experts are worried. This year outbreaks have been found...
22 November 2024
Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet
20 November 2024
In Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness, two spaceships meet to study a black hole. Their research comes to an abrupt halt, however, when crew members start dying horribly, says Emily H. Wilson
