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The May 1964 issue of the venerable British science fiction magazine New Worlds had a new editor: Michael Moorcock. Moorcock, still in his early 20s, had already made a name...

'Proto-Science Fiction' being science fiction books written before HG Wells (pre 1890. Also referred to as the 'really old stuff before science fiction was even a genre. If you value...

Let's face it, most of us read like we eat -- badly. We devour fat, cheesy, pulpy fiction that goes down easy and gives us a fast feeling of satisfaction....

So here we have a sub-genre of science fiction that has a cool name, because of which its authors dress in leather jackets and wear mirror shades - at least...

If you were looking for just one book to read as an introduction to the range and variety of science fiction, this would be the one. As with all the...

It's hard to know which Brian Aldiss novel to pick out for a list like this. Should it be Greybeard with its aging population living on a sterilised Earth? Or...

It was a time of colour-coded Mars Red, Green, Blue Mars, for instance so it is hardly surprising to find one that offers yet another twist on the spectrum. But...

I said there was another history of science fiction on this list, and here it is. In Billion Year Spree, Aldiss had written the first book-length history of the genre,...

From the back cover: Imagine a world in a system of twin stars, where Winter is 600 ice-locked years and every Spring is the first remembered. Imagine a People finding...

From the back cover: Imagine a world a thousand light years from Earth, where each season lasts for generations, and each generation knows only one season. Where twin suns warm...

From back cover of Ace paperback May 1987: Image Helliconia -- a world at the end of a reign that has lasted nearly two thousand years. The glorious civilization that...

Ah, steampunk. The genre itself was only cooling on the windowsill when Mark Millar and Brian Augustyn basically created the Elseworlds concept, taking Batman to a Victorian-era Gotham where a...