The Chinese writer Cixin Liu Cixin Liu may not be a household name in America yet, but he’s already one of the most popular science-fiction writers in the world. He is most well-known for his 2008 ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction novels. Personal tastes meant we ended up with a wonderfully ...

Tiger by the tail -- Nightmare brother -- Problem -- The coffin cure -- Brightside crossing -- The native soil -- Love they vimp -- Letter of the law -- Family resemblance Nine short-science fiction ...

Set in late-21st-century Australia, this novel (published in Australia in 2022 but out now more widely) follows Tao-Yi in a world where most people spend their lives in an immersive virtual reality ...

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wishes he could write faster. His entire body of work from the last 34 years almost completely fits into two book-length collections of short stories, and he says he ...