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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King's The Stand

The best new science fiction books of August 2025

31 July 2025

From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned world, August has a bumper crop of new science fiction novels
More than Human at the Design Museum

×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London

30 July 2025

The books, TV, games and more that ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ staff have enjoyed this week
2FE3T0P NICK OFFERMAN in DEVS (2020), directed by ALEX GARLAND. Credit: FX PRODUCTIONS / Album

Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?

30 July 2025

Alex Garland's tech company mystery is smart and compelling, though it can also be chilly and self-indulgent. Bethan Ackerley missed it in 2020, but after five strange years, she has decided to check it out
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The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

23 July 2025

Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige
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Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

23 July 2025

Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick
The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out

The 25 best fictional robots – according to ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ

23 July 2025

From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series
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×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ recommends Wolfgang Tillmans's new exhibition in Paris

16 July 2025

The books, TV, games and more that ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ staff have enjoyed this week
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Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat

9 July 2025

Foundation's new series is full of new characters and dramatic potential. But instead of mining those rich seams, too many plotlines have become shallow and absurd. It's hard to see a good show go bad, says Bethan Ackerley
Bryan Johnson in Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

4 July 2025

From David Attenborough to Hannah Fry via Bryan Johnson, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley selects her favourite science and technology documentaries of the year to date
Casual man standing on space platform watching planet Earth. 3D generated image. Earth texture is from Nasa (https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sunrise-shadows-over-the-philippine-sea).

The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

2 July 2025

From generation ships to climate change, there has been some stellar sci-fi out in the past six months. Our columnist Emily H. Wilson picks her favourites

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