Science fiction can be valuable in the broader communication ecosystem, bringing science to the public and offering scientists a space to exercise imagination. Science communication is increasingly ...

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

Writing in science -- Science writing as story telling -- Making a story sticky -- Story structure -- The opening -- The funnel : connecting O and C -- The challenge -- The action -- The resolution -- ...

Brandon Sanderson is constantly writing. He’s been working on the epic Stormlight Archive series since 2010, publishing the fifth of 10 planned books last year, and he’s got plans for a new Mistborn ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing of unthinkable things that later came true. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing Science ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked our team of expert science writers here at New Scientist to name their favourite science fiction novels. Personal tastes meant we ended up with a wonderfully ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...