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What does Literary Science Fiction mean? Well not plot-heavy shoot-em-up adventures for a start, but that still leaves a lot of territory. Not 'literary' authors condescending to write sf, because...

The 1980s and 90s were a time of richness and change in science fiction. The release of Star Wars in the late 70s had triggered a renewed interest in the...

This list is a direct continuation to the Top 25 Best Science Fiction list...started from the 26th book.It's always a tricky proposition to suggest the best of anything. My best,...

The Moon hangs clear above us. It is the only celestial body (other than the sun) that we can see as more than a dot. For that reason, it has...

Paul Park's return to science fiction takes the form of an alternate history, or a set of alternate histories, or nested alternate histories, or perhaps something else entirely. We begin...

The British Boom has been all about reinventing older forms of science fiction, making them fit for the new century, and no-one has done that better than Paul McAuley. The...

"Weaving a plot that constantly keeps you guessing about what might happen next, McAuley's vision of the future is compelling and vivid. A hugely impressive near-future space opera." -- Cover.

Fomalhaut was first colonised by the posthuman Quick, who established an archipelago of thistledown cities and edenic worldlets within the star's vast dust belt. Their peaceful, decadent civilisation was swiftly...

In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is...

Alex Sharkey is looking for the queen of the elves. Well - that's not quite true, but she's really not quite human. Thing is he thinks he loves her -...

The cool thing about McAuley's hard science fiction, spanning biotechnology, alternate history and time travel, is that he's actually a posh botanist with a lovely accent, not a Sheldon Cooper...

For some reason, the New Space Opera seems to have been particularly successful with British writers. Just look at names like Banks and Reynolds, Hamilton and Baxter, not to mention...

All the fury of the all-female remake of the 1985 classic Ghostbusters melted away the second the team shows up on-screen. Not actually a remake, Kirsten Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie...

There was an uproar when they announced an all-female re-make of Ghostbusters. It pretty much died down when the film turned out to be uproariously funny. The team of Kristen...

You've never heard of Other Space, have you? An original series from the short-lived Yahoo! Screen service, it was a referential absurdist comedy space opera, and you're unlikely to find...

Perhaps it is the fact that he is the son of Paul Theroux that tends to get Marcel Theroux tagged as a mainstream novelist. In fact his work has often...

**Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time** Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As...

Fourth book in the Dune series. Takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, who has traded...

From back cover Avon paperback March 1998: There is a dream called Moonbase, nurtured by ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger and his wife, Joanna Masterson Stavenger; head of hte powerful Masterson Corporation....

The science fiction masterpiece continues in the "major event,"( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's Dune novels stand among the major achievements...

The revival of interest by NASA in sending missions to Mars in the early 1990s kickstarted a revival of interest in the planet as a setting for science fiction, with...

French filmmaker Luc Besson is best-known for his international break-out hit La Femme Nikita, but his most visually striking film has to be The Fifth Element. Taking the classic "Find...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe started with a bang named Robert Downey, Jr.. When he was cast as Tony Stark in Iron Man, a lot of folks wondered what the plan...

Steven Spielberg was at the top of his game when he brought Amazing Stories to television in 1985. The magazine that helped define how science fiction would evolve, and which...