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The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

2 July 2025

From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her favourites

How to Mars review: Sci-fi satire about reality TV on the Red Planet

4 August 2021

How to Mars by David Ebenbach is an amusing novel about a failed attempt at reality TV on Mars. It is a new twist on the genre, says Clare Wilson

11 of the best sci-fi books that transport you to another world

5 October 2020

All Systems Red by Martha Wells, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin all make our list of best sci-fi escapism

How The Expanse is still putting humans at the heart of sci-fi

20 November 2019

As sci-fi series The Expanse returns for a fourth season, on Amazon Prime, its authors (writing as James S.A. Corey) reveal how real physics and human frailty make for a rich world

A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity

13 February 2019

Katie Paterson's biggest art show yet gives gallery-goers a tantalising taste of space and time at a cosmic scale

Volcanoes: Oxford exhibition gives the fiery inside story

1 March 2017

An engaging exhibition and its accompanying book proves that exploring our relationship with Earth's most dynamic geology doesn't need to be sensationalist

The play X will have you clock-watching - but in a good way

7 April 2016

A thrilling new science-fiction play by Alistair McDowall carries Stewart Pringle a long way from home

How Do You Find an Exoplanet? An insider account gives top tips

3 February 2016

John Asher Johnson, who found the smallest exoplanet to date, proves an invaluable guide in his book about one of science's hottest fields

Review: The Last Human, by Esteban Sarmiento et al

31 January 2007

Humans dominate the planet because of our evolutionary ancestors' darker sides. Adrian Barnett confronts a formidable cast of characters

Review : Search the skies

17 October 1997