In honor of Black History Month, we're recommending these fantasy and sci-fi novels written by Black authors.

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction novels. Personal tastes meant we ended up with a wonderfully ...

A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame will be the featured speaker at a national science fiction conference hosted by the University of Kansas next month. Samuel “Chip” Delany will ...

Ringworld by Larry Niven was published in 1970 to huge acclaim, winning both Hugo and Nebula awards; it’s been in print ever since. It came out when humans had just landed on the moon and it looked ...

We are currently living through an unprecedented rise in the popularity of science fiction over the past couple of years. From new releases from established names such as Star Wars to the rise of ...

Congratulations to Eleanor Arnason, who will be celebrated for 50 years as an award-winning science fiction writer at next weekend’s Mythcon 53 in Minneapolis. This national convention of the ...

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 ...

The Lambda Literary Awards’ science fiction category sometimes comes in for derision (for example, for passing over Octavia Butler’s awesome Fledgling in favor of a markedly inferior work a couple ...

Science fiction, you (allegedly) have a sexism problem. In an incisive article for the The Guardian's book blog, Damien Walter lays out a stark gender disparity: of the 29 Grandmasters of Science ...

It takes a dreamer to think outside the box, imagine something impossible, and conjure up uses for an object previously undreamt. Artists and authors have created unbelievable situations in their ...