You won't be able to put down these exceptional sci-fi picks.

Stellar hard sci-fi books like Children of Time and The Three-Body Problem announce themselves as proper masterpieces of the ...

With deeply constructed and immersive worldbuilding, these sci-fi masterpieces span from sprawling interstellar empires to ...

From daring sequels like Golden Son to cultural juggernauts like Project Hail Mary, these are the best sci-fi books released ...

From stranded astronauts to first contact and alien intelligence, these five sci-fi novels should fill the gap on your ...

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The National Book Foundation, together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the selected books for the 2025 Science + Literature program. The 2025 fiction selection is science fiction novel ...

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Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, first published in China in 2008, has grown from a Chinese science-fiction novel into a worldwide literary success, with its story reaching millions of readers and ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...