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James Lovegrove picks the year’s stand-out titles
The FT examines the causes and effects of an increasing global resistance to antibiotics: from the pressures doctors are under to prescribe them, to what new treatments are currently in the pipeline, as well as what role can the consumer play in reducing antibiotic use in the food chain
From tongue-in-cheek terror to supernatural stalkers and mythical monsters, there are plenty of scares this Halloween
From an ode to scholarship to time-travelling twins, plus parasites and a whodunnit set in the future
From a Gothic, Dickensian fantasy to a comedic Scottish dystopia, plus Marvel Comics and a reimagining of an HG Wells classic
James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads
Finally translated into English, this 1962 story of aliens seeking to save mankind blends high and popular literature in provocative ways
Alongside dystopian visions from writers today comes a clutch of classics from master of prescience John Wyndham
Main developments: Biden says Russia will ‘bear the consequences’ as US and allies roll out fresh sanctions; Ukraine reports bombing of cities and airports; and Russia denies plan to occupy whole of Ukraine
From alien worlds to Antarctica, a crop of cataclysmic tales deals in death, life after death and strange, terrifying creatures
A disappearing sun, adventure by a real astronaut, nanotech in Dhaka, a dystopian Texas and short stories to fuel the imagination
The country’s writers have used science fiction and fantasy to tackle earthly issues — and the rest of the world is catching up
Now the predictions of his bestseller ‘The Circle’ have been superseded, his sequel to the dystopia has had to reach deeper
James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles
Creepiness in corporate America; conspiracy theory culture; towns that go missing; and building on a classic by HG Wells
Vampires in verse; a homage to the slasher movie; bodies that contain multitudes; and a dystopian dilemma
A haunted house, medieval phantasms, romance in a loop, and machines in control are among the genre-expanding fare
A ‘cosy catastrophe’ hits home in Susannah Wise’s debut This Fragile Earth and a different kind of global disaster strikes in Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal
Futuristic, fantastical tales from Japan, Prague, Wakanda and beyond that defy Anglo-American dominance of the genre
Women writers offer visions of rural dystopias, oppressed witches and dwindling doomsday cults
Two smart sci-fi debuts in ‘Radio Life’ and ‘The Stranger Times’ and a London split in two in Louise Carey’s ‘Inscape’
A new online dictionary reveals the often venerable histories of the genre’s most futuristic terms
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