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A dark moon is the location for Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new sci-fi novel Shroud Laperruque / Alamy Humanoid mosquitoes, alien contact …

In the latest Tron movie, Jared Leto’s AI has an offer for humanity Disney Enterprises When your goofy, low-budget, horror …

Voyages, both interstellar and Earth-bound, frame many new sci-fi novels Shutterstock/PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek I am writing this without (so far) …

The weather outside may be frightful but the new books inside are delighful Lechatnoir/Getty Images An Increasingly divisive politics. Media …

Is your favourite sci-fi short story in this list? Sometimes you’re in the mood for a slice of science fiction …

Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, editor of anthologies set in the Wild Cards universe Paras Griffin/Getty Images …

Intense: Find a quiet spot and expand your mind with these inspiring books David Trood/Getty Images The Burning Earth by Sunil …

2024 has been a great year for sci-fi, from time travel stories to those set in space Matt Mawson/Millennium Images, UK …

Mars – the kind of place to raise your kids? ESA /MPS/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/​IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/I​DA As a kind of living embodiment of the …

The International Space Station MSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her …