So, in no particular order, here they are: New Scientist’s favourite science fiction books of all time. We’d love to hear from readers, too, about your own favourite sci-fi. Join the conversation on ...

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Burnt out by a ”toxic, white, male-dominated publish-or-perish environment”, tired of being left to clean up rooms after a meeting and talked to as though she was lazy, Jasmin Graham quit academia in ...

The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human. By Pierce Brown Pierce Brown is the number-one New York Times ...

There are some sci-fi heavy hitters with new novels out this month, from Cixin Liu and Stephen Baxter to John Scalzi. I’m keen to check out Ian McEwan’s venture to a flooded version of 2119 – a ...

Though neither “spacemance” nor “romancifi” has really caught on as a portmanteau just yet, science fiction and romance can make a perfect mashup, blending voyages in space (and time), mecha battles, ...

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Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

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The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and 13th ...