Andy Weir’s novel is one of the most popular science fiction books in recent years, and there are many other great works that ...

A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A. Corey are among the science-fiction books we’re looking forward to this month ...

It's the start of a new season, and that means plenty of new fantasy and sci-fi books to add to your bookshelf. Here are 13 ...

Dune is one of the best and most acclaimed sci-fi books of all time, but a few others are similarly great, including Hyperion ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Whether you’re looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here. By The New York Times Books Staff The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics ...

Sci-fi stories are great, but some books are so complex you need to read them twice (or more!) to fully understand them.

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 ...

This is definitely on my reading list: in fact, I am hoping we might choose it for a future New Scientist Book Club read. Longlisted for the Booker already, it has been described by our sci-fi ...

Some sci-fi books are so great that they could sustain multiple seasons of a prestige TV shows, even though they are a ...

Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi concepts depart significantly from established physics. A ...

It can be funny to look at science fiction writing of the past and see what people thought the twenty-first century would be ...