精东传媒

Science fiction

Science fiction

This is our hub for all things sci-fi where we bring you the best from across books, TV and film. This page features round-ups of the latest science fiction, in-depth reviews and interviews with leading sci-fi authors.

Comment

Emily St. John Mandel: ‘I don’t want to write something relentlessly bleak’

The science-fiction novelist talks to Alison Flood about her latest book Exit Party, a tale of parallel worlds that is the October read for the New 精东传媒 Book Club

Culture
niffenegger - 11/07/03 - TORONTO, ONTARIO - Chicago visual artist Audrey Niffenegger whose first novel, The Time Traveller's Wife, has caused quite a stir. It's the story of a guy with a chromosonal defect that causes him, under stress, to drop out of the present and enter (totally naked) the past or go to the future. (Photo by Rick Madonik/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Comment

‘There’s two ways of doing time travel, right?’ says Audrey Niffenegger

Culture
Dog vomit slime mould (Fuligo septica) close up of sporangia on old tree stump, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June - Focus Stacked

Comment

These two new sci-fi novels really impressed us

Culture

Comment

Whalefall review: Worth watching for the bits inside a sperm whale

Culture

Comment

Time Traveler鈥檚 Wife sequel is far more complex than its predecessor

Culture
2N18F2Y In this photo made in April 2012, a wolf in a wild wood in Ukraine's Chernobyl, where nearly 30-years after a nuclear reactor caught fire and spewed a lethal cloud of radiation, some species of mammals are found to be thriving without the effect of human contact in the area. According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, led by environmental scientist Jim Smith at Britain's University of Portsmouth, the nature reserve zone extending north from Chernobyl power plant into Belarus, found that elk, deer, wild boar and wolves are now abundant in the Polesie reserve which was est

Comment

This prize-winning sci-fi novel about wolf rewilding made me cry

Culture

Comment

Grief and tech collide in uneasily brilliant sci-fi film The Remotes

Culture

Comment

Climate satire Digger 鈥� with Tom Cruise on top form – is full of surprises

Culture

Comment

Read an extract from Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

Culture
Moonfish film (2026)

Comment

Moonfish, a haunting animation, captures a tragedy in space

Daniel Zvereff鈥檚 animation, Moonfish, exposes the grief-filled and strange reality of space miner Cassius鈥檚 life working on an asteroid after things go tragically wrong. Drawn in black and white, it鈥檚 a tiny budget wonder

Culture

Comment

The best new science-fiction books of October 2026

Culture

Comment

The first season of Heroes is almost perfect 鈥� here’s why

Culture

Comment

Emily St. John Mandel is back with a stunning sci-fi trip to a parallel world

Culture

Comment

As Star Trek turns 60, it’s not too late to discover the seminal series

Culture