BrainCan - science fiction

dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel...

It has sold millions of copies,is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star...

al kennedy: doctor who reminded me how precious...

The novelist explains how,despite 20 years’ experience, stepping into the world she has loved...

luna: new moon by ian mcdonald review - the moon...

Mafia-style mining families clash in a compelling fantasy that offers up all the pleasures of a...

quatermass box set review: sci fi from an era...

These TV series of the good professor’s battles with aliens opened with a plummy warning to...

science fiction and fantasy look ahead to a...

After years of toil below the mainstream radar,a more inclusive generation of writers is set for...

future home of the living god by louise erdrich...

Evolution has gone into reverse,birth rates are dropping and fertile women are held prisoner – a...

terminator: the sarah connor chronicles box set...

Lena Headey’s sci-fi freedom-fighter tackles the killer robots with terminal violence and a kind...

its about time: how sci fi has described einsteins...

A century after the publication of the general theory of relativity,sci-fi is still grappling with...

the best recent science fiction and horror -...

Eric Brown on Adam Nevill’s Lost Girl; Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Mercy; Dave Hutchinsons Europe at...

the aliens review: otherworldly fun from the...

Buckle up: E4’s new comedy-drama is a rollercoaster ride. Plus,the penultimate episode of the...

neil coles adventures in science fiction: museum...

Neil Cole's Adventures in Science Fiction: Museum of Sci-fi is the realization of the lifelong...

the gradual by christopher priest review - a...

A composer’s tour of a Dream Archipelago explores themes of time,memory and the petty frustrations...

hunters collectors by m suddain review - space...

The gastronomic misadventures of a cosmic food critic from a ridiculously talented writerI’ve...

a closed and common orbit by becky chambers review...

This followup to The Long Way to a Small indignant Planet is a charming epic of esteem and...

dark matter review - quantum fiction that s...

Blake Crouch,author of the Wayward Pines trilogy, opens up a modern and infinitely filmable worldThe...

margaret atwood: haunted by the handmaids tale

It has been banned in schools,made into a film and an opera, and the title has become a shorthand...

black science fiction writers face universal...

Fireside Fiction’s report,#BlackSpecFic, finds less than 2% of SF stories published in 2015 were...

the long cosmos by terry pratchett and stephen...

‘Stepping’ from one Earth to the next,assembly strange creatures and reflecting on life, savor...

the best recent science fiction - reviews roundup

Sealed by Naomi Booth,Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities by James Lovegrove, Dogs of...

the best science fiction novels - review roundup

Eric Brown on Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan,Ancestral Machines by Michael Cobley, All The Birds in...

why kim stanley robinsons mars books will be...

Kim Stanley Robinson’s series of novels about pioneering colonists of the Red Planet is being...

when ai rules the world: what sf novels tell us...

Science fiction has offered many visions of a computer-controlled future,and the future doesn’t...

the awesome power of science fictions alien...

The imaginary constructions of science fiction fill us with awe at their alien vastness. Which have...

people, the final frontier: how sci fi is taking...

The latest films and books in the genre focus on relationships as much as outer space thanks to the...

computers might beat us at board games, but that...

So computers can now beat humans at recede – but why would they swap their game pieces for...

are we alone? sf is as sure a guide as any

Any truth humans can find out there’ remains speculative,and science and fiction are both still...

what lies beneath the brave new world of feminist...

From the Bailey-prize-winning The Power to the bleakly compelling The Handmaid’s Tale,Leading...

british science fiction association awards unveil...

Stories set in varied worlds ranging from a devastated Paris to a sinister planet people by an...

sf discovers reason and chaos on mars

Since HG Wells’s War of the Worlds,the genre has used the red planet as a theatre for the battle...

how many lego bricks would it take to build famous...

It’s hard to truly grasp the size of famous science fiction megastructures like the Death Star or...

teknolust

Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning science fiction film...

the best recent science fiction and fantasy novels...

The Corporation Wars: Dissidence by Ken MacLeod,The Many Selves of Katherine North by Emma Geen,...

pourquoi ne parvient on pas a depasser le...

Lorsqu’il a fait son apparition il y a plus de trente ans,le cyberpunk a été acclamé comme le...

things to come

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells,producer Alexander Korda, and designer and...

star wars novelist strikes back at gay character...

Chuck Wendig says critics claiming ‘gay agenda’ in Star Wars: Aftermath,his bestselling new...

the best science fiction and fantasy novels -...

Eric Brown on Radiance by Catherynne M Valente,Eleanor by Jason Gurley, Empire V by Victor Pelevin,...

wookie books: the science fiction that inspired...

Star Wars made science fiction a cultural phenomenon,but the films origins lie in other texts, and...

this account of an imaginary 9.0 earthquake in...

Remember that New Yorker fable about a potential earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone that...

were living in a new golden age of space movies

Just a few years ago,we were wondering where all the movies approximately outer space had gone. And...

aliette de bodard picks up two sci fi awards for...

Writer is the first to win best novel and best short chronicle at British Science Fiction...

new program: microsoft commissions science fiction...

Major names including Ann Leckie,Greg Bear and Seanan McGuire contribute to software giant’s...

neat size comparison video compares the size of...

Whip ‘em out. Which science fiction film has the biggest spaceship or station or cube thing or...

are the only good roles for women in sci fi?

Tatiana Maslany hit the acting jackpot as the star of the sci-fi series Orphan Black: Not only is...

the titan find

A crew of scientists arrives on a far,cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin....

heres your exclusive first look of kameron hurleys...

Kameron Hurley is one of the more exciting authors to crash into the science fiction publishing...

disney was somehow shocked that michael jackson...

Captain EO has been a Disney park staple since 1986,the height of Michael Jackson’s post-Thriller...

the entire run of if magazine is now freely...

IF Magazine was a monthly science fiction magazine that was first published in 1952,and ran through...

comment la science fiction nous aide a comprendre...

Cyberespace. Le concept est né en 1984,avec le roman Neuromancien de William Gibson, et il est...

goke, body snatcher from hell

After an airplane is forced to crash-land in a remote area,its passengers find themselves...

neill blomkamp gave an update about the future of...

Neill Blomkamp,the writer and director of the highly anticipated fifth film in the Alien franchise...

which sci fi author has come closest to predicting...

The long-running series in which readers reply other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from...

microsofts free anthology includes some of todays...

Earlier this week,Microsoft released a short anthology titled Future Visions: Original Science...

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