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When John W. Campbell took over as editor of Astounding in 1939, he instituted a new regime. Now, he told them, he wanted sound science, with the most formidable antagonist...

Comics have been around for a long, long time. More than a hundred years in some forms. Initially devised as a way to collect the daily strips into a single,...

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...

On successive days in May 1895 a young writer, previously known only for a couple of textbooks, had two books published. The first, a collection of humorous newspaper articles, sank...

What makes some SF 'great' and other SF less so? Tough call. Still, despite some disputes that sometimes amount to nitpicking, there's some kind of consensus about the books on...

Science fiction opens up a world of possibilities for children from aliens and space travel to robots and time travel and even machines that can do your homework for you....

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...

Love Science Fiction? Hate wasting time reading the trash? Then read this definitive guide to the Top 25 Science Fiction Books in the genre. It's been a long time in...

The post-war era was a big one for science fiction. We had a lot of evidence that the world was going to blow itself to smithereens via the atom bomb,...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the...

By the 1990s, the world was changing more rapidly than ever. The digital age foreseen by the cyberpunks was already becoming more complex as writers began pushing the ideas forward...

He had reached the age of 650 miles. With its very first words, Inverted World tells us we are in a very different world. In fact, this is one of...

Another DC Silver Age creation, originally written by science fiction Otto Binder (one-half of the pseudonym Eando Binder, along with his brother), the Legion of Super-Heroes is a title that...

This is a coming of age story about a set of twins who embark on a journey of exploration in space, but one never leaves planet earth. One grows old,...

The team comic came of age during the 1960s, and Doom Patrol was one of the best examples of a purpose-built group. Like the Fantastic Four as a reaction to...

An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.

Marvel needed a team. The Silver Age was in full swing, and the Justice League of America was the biggest deal in comics. Stan Lee was the head of Marvel...

It's hard to believe that this game launched almost ten years ago. Despite its age, Crysis still looks incredible, with a well-designed environment and textures, models and lighting that almost...

At the Erebus Resort in the Colorado Rockies, scientists have revived Ice Age animals such as woolly mammoths and giant deer, with their aggression genes muted. When honeymooners are attacked...

David Mitchell's novels have always seemed very different, including a crime novel in contemporary Japan, a coming of age story in 1960s Britain, an historical novel set in 17th century...

First novel in the Riverworld series. Along the winding river valley in a place somewhere no on Earth or maybe not even in this universe, people (dead people) awake, bald...

Winner of the 2002 National book award as well as a Printz and Newbery Honor book in 2003, House of the Scorpion has a lot of literary acclaim for a...

Newbery Award winning, The Giver, the first of The Giver quartet, is a dystopian coming of age story that is soon to be adapted into a major motion picture. In...

A near-future dystopia that has been compared to ground-breaking books such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, Little Brother is part coming-of-age story and part political treatise. Marcus Yallow and his...

Winner of the Golden Duck Award and nominated for an Aurealis, Shade's Children is a grim dystopian tale that is high on mystery and action. Earth has been taken over...

Carl Sagan was a prolifically talented astronomer, astrophysicist and astrobiologist, as well as being one of the best science popularisers of his age. He was particularly important in considering questions...

In a strange twist of the real world, an English author has re-written American history, but without implying the Americans screwed something up and history would have been better without...

Another story about things gone bad in the future (the story's present). A gazillion nuclear wars, general pollutions and what-have-you, and the human gene-pool doesn't look too good by now. ...

Before he became the most influential editor in the history of science fiction, Campbell was an author of remarkable, scientifically savvy stories that clearly presaged the golden age he helped...