
What to read this week: Katrina Manson's terrifying Project Maven
18 March 2026
It is scarily fascinating to read about the US military's journey into AI warfare in this deeply-researched book. But what happens next, asks Matthew Sparkes

18 March 2026
It is scarily fascinating to read about the US military's journey into AI warfare in this deeply-researched book. But what happens next, asks Matthew Sparkes

2 January 2026
The Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most of us were fans of this big-thinking Culture tale

9 December 2025
Âé¶¹´«Ã½ writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board games, an eclectic mix which ranges from Dobble to The Creator

5 November 2025
A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into classic science fiction. Read it! says Emily H. Wilson

1 October 2025
Warhead by neuroscientist Nicholas Wright is an alarming insider account of how our brains influence conflict – and how those brains were, in turn, shaped by war, finds Elle Hunt

16 July 2025
The Wild Ones follows three experts out to capture video of species including the Gobi bear and the Javan rhinoceros. It is a heartwarming call to action

15 January 2025
At his best, Iain M. Banks could be extraordinarily stylish, inventive and downright funny. So how does his genre-redefining science fiction stand up to the test of time? Emily H. Wilson rereads the greats

20 December 2024
We asked Âé¶¹´«Ã½ writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results

15 May 2024
Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby's cancer diagnosis added urgency to his project, as part of musical collective Mining, to turn weather and sea data into music

4 October 2023
Set during a futuristic war between humans and artificial intelligence, The Creator is nothing if not spectacular. Shame it is cobbled together from the tropes of other science fiction movies, says Simon Ings