#sci-fi stories

Take a break with a light take on serious topics, with a science fiction novel that’s a satire and a thriller, all at once.

With the comic series having recently concluded, a look at the immensely gratifying science fiction epic from Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen.

An electrifying read about a world where the balance of power is inverted, and men are the weaker sex.

In a world where data is king, can people survive as more than bits of information?

When was the last time a major sci-fi series was based on paintings in an art book?

Contemporary SF Classics featuring books by Ian McDonald, MR Carey, Liu Cixin, Adam Roberts, Nnedi Okorafor, Annalee Newitz and Gareth L Powell.

SF writer par excellence. Editor beyond compare. The most contentious man on the planet. The fox in the SF hen coop.

A review of Kumar L’s novel of first contact, Earth to Centauri: The First Journey.

In which we talk about his award-winning Numbercaste, big data, credit scores, Sri Lankan sci-fi, Commonwealth Empire, his alternative history trilogy, ‘crafting one’s own Iron Throne’, and more.

Had enough of big-budget extravaganzas where it looks like they spent a lot of money on a lot of things …

An overview of a book for anyone interested in the idea of Time and Time Travel – James Gleick’s Time Travel: A History, a book that’s bigger on the inside.

A look at some interesting words coined in works of science fiction (that need to be used more!)

And as with many classics, so it is with 2001: A Space Odyssey, that the behind-the-scenes stories are equally fascinating.

“History does not reveal its alternatives”. Thankfully, we have alternate histories. Here’s just some of them.

An overview of Infomocracy, the sci-fi political thriller about the future of democracy in an age of Information; with an exclusive Q&A with its author, Malka Older.

Revisiting Frank Herbert’s seminal – and enjoyable – must-read epic of political intrigue, human emotions, ecology, imperialism, mysticism, messianic deliverance, and more. Soon to be a Denis Villeneuve film.

From calling Google the devil, breaking down Amazon’s BS machine, and the time she ‘tricked’ Playboy and bought a Volkswagen bus, to the time refused to blurb a sci-fi anthology, four times Ursula Le Guin showed us what she’s made of.

Award-winning science fiction author, cyberguru and technopundit, Bruce Sterling on Aadhaar, Fake News and cyberpunk.

Communicating science via fiction and art, Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne – a rock star in his own right – continues to make waves with his work, well after his ‘retirement’.

A review of Sami Ahmad Khan’s alien invasion sci-fi thriller, Aliens in Delhi.