New books by William Alexander, Claire North and qntm examine new technologies and unexplored worlds with verve.

An eco-masterpiece, icy intrigue, cyberpunkish cyborgs, memory-eating aliens and super-fast travel sends the world spinning out of control ...

Jules Verne’s 1863 book "Paris in the Twentieth Century," set in Paris in 1960, correctly predicted cars, fax machines, and ...

In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, we ...

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

One of my most anticipated books of the year is out this month: a collection of short stories set in the post-apocalyptic devastation of Stephen King’s The Stand. I love a good end-times story, and ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term “robot” — ...

It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...