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Graphic storytelling dates back to caves in France. It's always been around, in everything from graffiti cartoons to tapestries to political cartoons. The comic strip rose up in the late...

Most people find their first science fiction book in a disorganized accident. Picture yourself as a puberty-aged kid forced to go to some family gathering where the house smells of...

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...

The advent of cinema at the end of the 19th century changed the way we saw the world. Those first images flickering across the screen were simply shots of every...

It was an extraordinary year for science fiction, with so many books challenging for our attention that any of half a dozen titles could have made the top spot, and...

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...

'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...

Making up a list of 'underrated' books is even iffier than making up others; like 'best ever' suchlike. What to include and how books are ranked becomes more subjective than...

This is the Alternative Top 25 Best Science Fiction list (AKA the OLD Top 25 Science Fiction List before we created a brand new one and released it in January...

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...

Japan was not far behind the US or Europe when it came to animation. Even in the earliest days of animation, in the second decade of the twentieth century, there...

Which science fiction novels defined 2025? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2024? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2023? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2022? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2021? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2020? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2019? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2018? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Which science fiction novels defined 2017? This list ranks the year's books by how many independent signals back them: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards, and the Goodreads...

Adapting short fiction has yielded some of the finest science fiction films of all-time, like They Live! and Charly. Arrivial is based on a short story by the amazing Ted...

Starts with A Mote in God's Eye, the award winning first book in the series of 2 with the 3rd book written by one of the authors. Nothing will prepare...

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 move that most of us would think is unprecedented in the science fiction world of famous authors, Larry Niven has done something unheard of: admitted to an error...

In the early 1960s, Arthur C. Clarke was approached by the film maker, Stanley Kramer, to ask if he would be interested in writing a film. Clarke recalled a short...

Why is it that fundamentalists Christians who don't believe in things like caffeine and alcohol always have the most fantastic imaginations? Orson Scott Card, everyone's favorite Mormon (and trust me,...

This short novel by one of the most reliable writers in the genre is a first contact story with a difference. Aliens have landed in New York, or rather, just...

In 2007, the world is on the verge of first contact, and Cora Sherman, a young woman, is secretly in contact with an alien being. In this alternate history, conspiracy...

There are few films that impart a sense of spirituality like Close Encounters does. The story of humanity's first contact with aliens, and the individuals who become obsessed with the...

Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's...

The John W. Campbell award-winning author of Virtual Girl offers an eyewitness account of "a complex alien ecology" (Washington Post Book World) in her stunning new novel. Amy Thomson captivated...

In 2055 NASA has no astronaut corps left, so when a huge object from another star system enters the solar system and ignores every message sent to it, the agency...

First in the Last Survivors Quartet, Life as We Knew It chronicles the lives of a family in rural Pennsylvania which are turned upside down when an asteroid knocks the...

When you say graphic novel, most folks will first conjure the image of Alan Moore's masterpiece. It's an incredible, and powerful, comic to be sure, and one that every fan...

Among the infinity of unanswered questions there are a few about our so-called 'human nature' that will never be answered because we'll only find those answers in alternate universes or...

You know it has to be old school space opera, when the novel's written by someone called "Doc". It makes me wonder if this was ever really cool, or just...

Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular seriesBeloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and...

First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...

What would you do if you could live your life over and over again? It may not be as idyllic an option as it sounds, as Claire North demonstrates in...