Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself
18 July 2025
Adam Roberts' Lake of Darkness sets out to be a utopia novel, but it could have easily been called Space Satan instead
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Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set Lake of Darkness
27 June 2025
In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we are given an insight into how deep-space travel works in Adam Roberts’s universe
Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic
11 April 2025
In this extract from the classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet Ringworld’s protagonist Louis Wu, as he travels a future Earth
Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay
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
Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars
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?
The best new science fiction books of 2024
27 November 2024
Murder in space, a sexbot, a dystopian vision of the future: our science fiction columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her top five reads of 2024
Read an extract from Tade Thompson’s science fiction novel Rosewater
5 July 2024
In this tantalising extract from Tade Thompson’s novel Rosewater, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet Kaaro and learn about the psychic powers he has had since an alien invasion
Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time
30 May 2024
We asked ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M. Banks
