Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time We asked New Scientist ... So the Minotaur, for example, becomes a story of maternal love and the patriarchy.

Science fiction emerged nearly 300 years ago ... John Wyndham’s tale of giant sentient plants is published. This novel is a perfect example of “cosy catastrophe” British fiction.

George Orwell's “1984” is an example of a dystopian narrative that is not post-apocalyptic. Science Fiction – Sci-fi novels rely on current or imagined technological advances and the exploration of ...

A few "mainstream" science fiction novels of this era also substituted ... as Miller implies in A Canticle for Leibowitz, for example, others can be equally utopian without the consideration ...

Some notable examples as of recently include panics around vaccinations ... Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is considered by many to be the first true science-fiction novel. It deals with fears of ...