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    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Review
      The best new sci-fi: supervillains and AI phenomena take pride of place

      Satire, if not quite gay abandon, abounds — and Shakespeare’s legacy lives on

    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Review
      Best new sci-fi books — supernatural Shakespeare and paranormal sleuths

      Plus a military take on ‘The Martian’ and wonderful weirdness in Lapland

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    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Summer Books 2023
      Best summer books of 2023: Science fiction

      James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

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    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
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      Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’

      The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’

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    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
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      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

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    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      Review
      The best new sci-fi: action-packed plots and pure ‘nerdstalgia’

      Space operas, Tarantino-style sorcerers — and the return of cult classic ‘Blake’s 7’

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    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Review
      In Ascension by Martin MacInnes — a far-reaching epic on the planet’s future

      A blend of deep scientific knowledge and nuanced narrative takes us from the sea to space to highlight Earth’s riches

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
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      ‘Fictional intelligence’ can blind us to real-world dangers

      Policymakers and strategists look to novelists to help envisage the tech accelerating towards us

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    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Best new sci-fi books — aliens, AI and science gone awry

      A gender-flipped Handmaid’s Tale, murderous moths and driverless cars with a mind of their own

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      ReviewCity of London
      Citizen of London by Michael McCarthy — lessons from Dick Whittington

      A chronicle of the life of the four-times London mayor who inspired an archetype

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Old heroes return — the best new science fiction novels

      Robert E Howard’s Conan comes back in rousing fashion, courtesy of SM Stirling, while Aliette de Bodard summons the spirit of HG Wells

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Science fiction

      James Lovegrove picks the year’s stand-out titles

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Fresh chills — the best new horror fiction

      From tongue-in-cheek terror to supernatural stalkers and mythical monsters, there are plenty of scares this Halloween

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Review
      Genre round-up — the best new science fiction

      From an ode to scholarship to time-travelling twins, plus parasites and a whodunnit set in the future

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      Review
      The best new science fiction books — carry on screaming

      From a Gothic, Dickensian fantasy to a comedic Scottish dystopia, plus Marvel Comics and a reimagining of an HG Wells classic

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Science fiction

      James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      Review
      Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima — interplanetary, quite extraordinary

      Finally translated into English, this 1962 story of aliens seeking to save mankind blends high and popular literature in provocative ways

      Stars scattered across the darkness of space
    • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
      Review
      From teleportation to triffids revisited — our sci-fi round-up

      Alongside dystopian visions from writers today comes a clutch of classics from master of prescience John Wyndham

    • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
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      Ukraine invasion news from February 24: Russian forces storm Ukraine, civilians flee Kyiv, west unveils new sanctions

      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

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      Review
      Deserts, dystopias and planetary perils — a round-up of new sci-fi

      From alien worlds to Antarctica, a crop of cataclysmic tales deals in death, life after death and strange, terrifying creatures

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Review
      Genre round-up: the best in new science fiction

      A disappearing sun, adventure by a real astronaut, nanotech in Dhaka, a dystopian Texas and short stories to fuel the imagination

    • Friday, 26 November, 2021
      Nilanjana Roy
      Churails, djinns and rakshasas — India’s monsters go mainstream

      The country’s writers have used science fiction and fantasy to tackle earthly issues — and the rest of the world is catching up

    • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
      Review
      The Every by Dave Eggers — technological tyranny

      Now the predictions of his bestseller ‘The Circle’ have been superseded, his sequel to the dystopia has had to reach deeper

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
      Best books of 2021: Science fiction

      James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Review
      Genre round-up — the best in new science fiction

      Creepiness in corporate America; conspiracy theory culture; towns that go missing; and building on a classic by HG Wells

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