As genres, science fiction and fantasy have always been a bit of a boy’s club. Paperback book covers feature muscled men ...

Of that celebrated group of 1950s sci-fi movies, "Forbidden Planet" also remains the only one that has mercifully not ...

The author on how HG Wells inspired the bombing of Hiroshima, rejecting the prize money – and why books shouldn’t push ...

The Balkan Nostradamus Baba Vanga has reportedly made a series of claims about what we can expect to experience in 2025.

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is one of the most interesting and unique novels to come out in the 20th century. It is a blend of genres, flowing between science fiction, historical fiction, ...

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Everett's "James," a daring reworking of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," won the National Book Award for fiction.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the 1979 comedy science fiction book by Douglas Adams that led to an international ...

The key to unlocking the story of Frank Herbert’s Dune is not an understanding of science fiction, nor the kind of ...

James Lovegrove selects his must-read titles ...

We’ll continue escaping into great reads this month with a fabulous fantasy, some incredible Arthurian-era historical fiction ...