From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month’s science fiction squares up to the big topics, with new titles ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Which is to say, a time to read books and buy books for your loved ones, in such copious quantities that your shelves groan with glee.

Combining tropes and conventions of both science-fiction and fantasy, magic and time-space travel often go hand ... a couple great science-fantasy books), I’ve conspired to get even more science ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel ...

Local resident Richard Cutler is the author of what has been described as “speculative fiction.” This is a subgenre of science fiction of which there are many genres including horror and space cowboy ...

Without both, you’d spin it, and only the equator would be useful… Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time ... invited me to open Known Space to other writers ...

Gibson’s “console cowboys” of a near future, chase one another through a virtual space known as ... breathes new life into science fiction in the 1990s. The first book in Kim Stanley ...