Humanoid mosquitoes, alien contact on deadly moons, implants that let you know everything your partner is thinking… the science fiction novels on offer in February feel especially interesting ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we ...

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.

For example, going out of the space station ... 1965 novel has been described as the first major “ecological science fiction ...

Local resident Richard Cutler is the author of what has been described as “speculative fiction.” This is a subgenre of science fiction of which there are many genres including horror and space cowboy ...

For his part, William Gibson believes that to divide science fiction into dystopian and utopian camps is to create a “pointless dichotomy.” Although his seminal 1984 cyberpunk novel ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

Over the weekend, you will have a series of workshops which will include topics such as: Insight into how top science fiction authors write their novels How to craft compelling science fiction ...