1 August 2025
The ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some of us weren't so sure about this far-future set slice of hard science fiction
1 August 2025
Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is spinning ever faster
1 August 2025
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, our protagonist boards a vessel which can circle the world in a matter of hours – with dangerous consequences for the Earth’s rotation
31 July 2025
From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a bumper crop of new science fiction novels
23 July 2025
Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige
2 July 2025
From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her favourites
27 June 2025
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-travelling romance
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
27 June 2025
The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite
11 June 2025
In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel
