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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time

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Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time

We asked 51�� 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

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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

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Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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The best new science fiction books of 2024

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time

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51�� recommends Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry

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Rachel Kushner

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Creation Lake author Rachel Kushner on the 'ultimate writer's task'

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Earth

Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids

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Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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Tim Winton's post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

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Nisi Shawl and Grace Wade

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Sci-fi author Nisi Shawl on Octavia E. Butler's legacy

The 51�� Book Club caught up with the late Octavia E. Butler's friend and fellow science fiction author Nisi Shawl to discuss Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, our latest read

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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Physics

Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment

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