This year hasn’t been a great one for the environment, so a book about the long history of environmental damage may be a hard sell. However, this isn’t just a litany of woe. It unpicks the ...

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the ...

James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles ...

"Machine Vendetta" is the final part of a trilogy called The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, so named because the lead character is a space cop (or prefect) named Tom Dreyfus. His job is to keep the ...

Recent books ... new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller. What if the star of “The Matrix” worked with a ...

These SFF books ... in science fiction and fantasy are over. Nowadays, we have more than just Buffy to look up to. From Star Wars’ Rey to Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery and the new ...

This year, leading thinkers asked how humanity became so fragile, what other life could exist in the universe, and whether it’s already here The best science books of 2024 tell an extraordinary ...

Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about them with your fellow book lovers. We’ll also be ...

Even though a new science fiction show served as one of the key inspirations for The Stand, it seems to be nothing like the ...

It’s certainly been a good year so far for book lovers ... whose fourth novel Intermezzo is arguably her best effort to date, as well as new works from American literary heavyweights such ...