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Science fiction books

July 2024

  • Irenosen Okojie

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

  • Jordan Prosser and the Big Time book cover

    Australian book reviews
    Big Time by Jordan Prosser review – a lush, drug-fuelled adventure in a future Australia

  • Pol Guasch

    Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch review – the aftermath of apocalypse

  • Sci-fi author Naomi Alderman

    Naomi Alderman: ‘Whatever happened to talking? We’ve lost the ability to swap ideas’

  • Notebook
    Is it time to turn the British Museum into the world’s great lending library?

    Tim Adams
  • ‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40

June 2024

  • The author Stephen King

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

    You Like It Darker by Stephen King; Tomorrowing by Terry Bisson; Freakslaw by Jane Flett; The Mark by Fríđa Isberg; Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

May 2024

  • Borders are fenced and patrolled in The Other Valley.

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

  • Joel Edgerton in Dark Matter.

    TV review
    Dark Matter review – Joel Edgerton abducts himself in fun multiverse thriller

April 2024

  • A vortex of sound and light … Jodie McNee and Ricardo Castro in Minority Report at Lyric Hammersmith, London.

    Minority Report review – futuristic fugitive thriller is criminally undercooked

  • spooky house

    Science fiction roundup
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March 2024

  • Vernor Vinge in Washington DC, 2006.

    Vernor Vinge obituary

  • ‘Like a rock star’ … Liu Cixin

    Liu Cixin: ‘I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?’

  • woman on red terrain

    Science fiction roundup
    The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

  • A still from Dune: Part Two.

    ‘Completely unfilmable’: the Dune universe is about to get weird

February 2024

  • Timothée Chalamet, left, and Austin Butler in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.

    Dune v Dune: do Denis Villeneuve’s films stay true to the book?

    As the second part of Villeneuve’s big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel hits cinemas, we explore what the Dune movies get right – and wrong
  • RF Kuang sits on a stone bench outdoors. She is wearing a dark blue dress

    Authors ‘excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns’

    Leaked emails reveal organisers of leading science fiction and fantasy awards flagged works of a ‘sensitive political nature’
    • Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee review – a dark American dream

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      The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

    • House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas races to the top of bestseller chart

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