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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


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What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

30 July 2025

Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does it take passion to make people listen?


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Earth's extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier

30 July 2025

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials


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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 ×îÐÂÂé¶¹ÊÓÆµ

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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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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The best popular science books of 2025 so far

2 July 2025

The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year to date, featuring a range of authors from Robert MacFarlane to Suzanne O'Sullivan


Hal LaCroix's Here and Beyond takes place on a spaceship journeying for centuries to a new planet

The best new science fiction books of July 2025

1 July 2025

From Austin Taylor to Nadia Afifi, there is lots to look forward to in the sci-fi out this month - including a novel which might be our culture editor Alison Flood's pick of the year so far


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The best new science fiction books of June 2025

6 June 2025

June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder


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×îÐÂÂé¶¹ÊÓÆµ recommends Colum McCann's new novel Twist

21 May 2025

The books, TV, games and more that ×îÐÂÂé¶¹ÊÓÆµ staff have enjoyed this week


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