An ageing firefighter battles dragons in 22nd-century America

A horror-comedy imagines what might have become of the protagonists from ‘Scooby-Doo’

A wickedly funny, ultimately bleak picture of life under alien overlords

This quartet of tales gives four sidekicks the chance to step out of the title character’s shadow

A secret unit investigates crimes through time travel in this unusual police procedural

A lunar colony is the setting for this follow-up to the 2014 bestseller ‘The Martian’

People infected by spores develop a hive-mind mentality in this pacy SF thriller

The strange becomes familiar in this evocative collection of SF tales

An intenet-like technology goes down for good in this commentary on our connectivity-obsessed times

An anthology of short stories flesh out cameos from the movie

In a dystopian Britain where nothing is secret, a detective investigates a troubling death

James Lovegrove and Barry Forshaw select their must-read titles

A compelling vision of a robot society just as amoral, embattled and corrupt as the human one it replaced

Nigerian astronauts seek to avert disaster on the International Space Station

Entrepreneurs and militants clash in this dystopian vision of environmental collapse

This eerie novel infuses the mystery genre with symbolism and soul

James Lovegrove selects his mid-year reads

The follow-up to the ‘Southern Reach’ trilogy is both an enthralling fantasy adventure and a bleak eco-dystopic admonition

A collaborative novel explores the boundary between magic and science with wit, intensity and panache

A group of astronauts train for a mission to Mars in this astute novel about the lure of space

Humans are kitted out with computer-like features in an innovative sci-fi thriller

A twisted love story is at the heart of this immersive science fiction debut