There’s no easier way to explore far-off planets or find your one true love than by reading a great book. Scientific American’s staffers may spend their days embedded in real-world science discoveries ...

Science fiction offers plenty of page-turning excitement, and children adore such edge-of-your-seat adventures. Moreover, the surreal settings of science fiction spark youngsters’ imagination. They ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

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 ...

With vengeful alien civilizations, virtual realities and hologram wives, Chinese science fiction is in its heyday — not just in China but around the globe. Renowned author Cixin Liu is at the ...

The great thrill of reading science fiction is encountering wild new ideas — or challenging new spins on familiar ones. Plenty of sci-fi books use robots and spaceships merely as a backdrop for a fun ...

We’ll need to get our skates on if we’re to keep up with all the new science fiction published in November. New Scientist sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson is adamant that we must read Claire North’s ...