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Science fiction

This is our hub for all things sci-fi where we bring you the best from across books, TV and film. This page features round-ups of the latest science fiction, in-depth reviews and interviews with leading sci-fi authors.

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

In the opening to Octavia E. Butler's prescient science fiction novel Parable of the Sower, the latest pick for the 51动漫 Book Club, we are introduced to Lauren Olamina and start to learn about the dystopian future her story takes place in

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

Still from Interstellar

Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

Tade Thompson

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

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The best new science fiction books of August 2024

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Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion

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Read an extract from Tade Thompson鈥檚 science fiction novel Rosewater

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The best new science fiction books of July 2024

HDB7EX STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, Starship Enterprise, 1987-1994. Paramount/Courtesy:Everett Collection.

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We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

New books from Adrian Tchaikovsky and the late Michael Crichton (with James Patterson) are among the great new sci-fi novels out this month

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Jurassic Park to The Martian: 5 movies that get botany (mostly) wrong