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In the year 3392, an automated grading machine decides that seven year-old Grame is fit to be no more than a "mechanical repetitive wor...

This is a review of a comic science-fiction novel from 1968, sort of John Wyndham done as sitcom. Yet in poking fun at the mores and anxieti...

Prompted by Richard Flanagan's Question 7 , I sought out this "science-fiction" anthology by the Hungarian physicist Leo Szila...

Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North , which was in part based on his father's ...

I've just received my copy of this handsome new book, to which I contributed an essay on the 1975 Doctor Who story Planet of Evil and wh...

Gosh, this is good — and thrilling, disturbing and difficult to put down. Annie Bot is all told from the perspective of a robot owned by 34...

A lot of this excellent history of British politics over the past century was already familiar to me. In some cases, that's because I...

A week ago I took the Lord of Chaos to see Dune Part Two at the cinema, him having caught up on the first part just the night before. It'...

Asha Akindele ensures life in the Lower Quarter of planet Gahraan in the year 6066, just about managing not to speak out against the Emperor...

My book  David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television is one of 24 titles longlisted for best non-fiction (long) in this year...

The idea of mashing up detective fiction and sci-fi isn't new. Isaac Asimov did it in The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun in the 1950s ...

A Kickstarter has been launched for the first in a new series new series of large-format books on the creative team behind Doctor Who . This...

Agoraphobic detective Elijah Baley is sent to the wide open spaces of the planet Solaria to investigate a murder. This is a planet where peo...

Biologist Karin Resaint has just completed a comprehensive study of a strange, rare fish; she thinks the Venomous Lumpsucker might be intell...

This gripping, near-future political thriller is published by Gold SF, the newish imprint of Goldsmiths Press that aims to discover and publ...

There's a masterpiece in blurbage on the back of this Penguin edition: "It was Diana Brackley who put the milk out for the cat; who...

Last week I hosted an event for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain with the last two winners of our Best First Novel Award - Aamina Ah...

This afternoon, I had a long chat with Nathan Price on his Countdown to the Moon project , discussing Artemis, the TV coverage of Apollo and...

Big Finish have released the cover and blurb for  Allies and Enemies , the trilogy of Blake's 7 audio plays out this December that incl...

This is another excellent, creepy novel by the author of Boy in the Tower . Ana feigns sickness to get out of going to school, where she'...