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The best new science fiction books of January 2026
Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...
Starfield lets you take the controls of massive starships to both cruise the cosmos and blast hostile spacefarers into smithereens. It also has a pretty snappy, powerful ship-building feature, so you ...
Science fiction in 2025 has settled into a confident, highly visible phase. This is no longer a genre pleading for legitimacy or hiding its ideas behind dense w ...
RELATED: Watch: Vin Diesel's 5-second kill in 'Riddick' is still one of the wildest sci-fi movie kills ever Everything that happens in Riddick follows from that basic template, with competing teams of ...
So far, it has been an encouraging year for science fiction. My favourite new offering to date is probably Hal LaCroix’s Here and Beyond, but then, I’m a sucker for a good ark-ship story. In LaCroix’s ...
Riches galore await sci-fi fans in July, with two of the books I’ve enjoyed most so far this year due to be published for all to read. Fancy a beautifully written vision of a world turning ever faster ...
Nearly 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series ignited a dream in the public’s imagination: that one day, people would travel the galaxy in ships propelled by faster-than-light “warp drives.” The ...
The world of science fiction is filled with countless spaceships, many of which can travel faster than the speed of light. This is a necessary conceit in sci-fi, though it goes against Einstein's ...
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